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[David Stockhoff]

On 11/2/2011 12:40 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> Craig Brewer wrote:
>
>> In the end, I prefer it to be "a really
>> long time" and not knowing exactly is a more appropriate sense of history
>> that Severian has throughout most of the book. This is one of those cases
>> where I prefer it when the "clues" don't add up to a consistent picture.
> Man's got a point. Perhaps "when" is not one of the mysteries we're
> intended to solve -- and really, other than satisfying our SF-nerd,
> anal-retentive desire to nail everything down (to which I plead as
> guilty as anyone), what difference does it make? Twenty thousand and a
> few hundred million years are both (honestly) far enough into the
> future that our minds can't really hold them. After all, if you go
> only a few thousand years into the _past_ you're into the shadows of
> myth and uncertainty.
>

Absolutely. Still, we ought to be able to answer the question: Are the 
mountains in the east?