(urth) the miracle of apu-punchau (text based questions)

[DAVID STOCKHOFF]

--- On Wed, 1/12/11, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:

> From: Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com>
> Subject: Re: (urth) the miracle of apu-punchau (text based questions)
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Wednesday, January 12, 2011, 12:13 PM
> On 1/12/2011 10:47 AM, Marc Aramini
> wrote:
> > The chapter title here is old lands and new, but the
> demons making the claim that the sea lift the continents to
> something new  seems to have a significance I do not
> immediately grasp.  Is this just another city on Urth,
> an older one than Nessus?
> 
> No pat answer here. It could be a more ancient human city,
> or it could be a city built by inhuman Things ala
> Lovecraft.
> 
> > Here Sev has "abandoned" his life and slips into this
> watery grave, but whether this is real, imagined, where it
> is exactly, seems terribly confused, and I wondered if
> anyone had made any sense of the bolt that cleaves ocean and
> suddenly leaves him deposited going through the curtain of
> the REAL citadel (like the other one was not?)
> 
> I am pretty sure he is dreaming, fitfully as he adjusts to
> breathing underwater. Possibly another Lovercraft reference,
> R'lyeh is a sunken city where the Cthulhu lies dead but
> dreaming.
 
The "towers" seem to be sideways but not "fallen." Is that right? If so, they are not towers at all.