(urth) Sigh

António Pedro Marques entonio at gmail.com
Wed Jan 12 07:16:31 PST 2011


Jeff Wilson wrote (12-01-2011 15:09):
> On 1/12/2011 12:09 AM, Adam Thornton wrote:
>> On 01/11/2011 11:19 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
>>> On 1/11/2011 10:12 PM, Adam Thornton wrote:
>>>> On 01/11/2011 09:04 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
>>>>> Borges' Library? Do you mean the Aleph? How is either one incorporated
>>>>> into the context of the Sun cycle?
>>>> Ultan's library occupies some space between (in a mythical sense)
>>>> Borges' Library of Babel and Borges' National Library.
>>>
>>> That's fine, but we need a literal antecedent for the
>>> see-around-corners thing to be a natural feature of space-time.
>>> na
>> Does the supposition in "The Library of Babel" that, if you were
>> immortal and went in any direction long enough, you'd eventually
>> encounter the same books in the same disorder, which would thereby
>> become The Order, count?
>
> If you can show me where it is incorporated into the context of possibly
> observable by the fictional characters of the Short Sun books, sure. For
> example, stuff that happens in the Amber books could excusably happen in
> the Vlad Taltos books, because Steven Brust incorporated Corwin's
> hellride encounter with a horseman in grey as the grey-wearing Vlad's
> encounter with Corwin.

What if the whole universe is a kind of Moebius strip? Has that currently 
been ruled out?



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