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António Pedro Marques entonio at gmail.com
Mon Nov 7 07:17:39 PST 2011


Marc Aramini wrote (06-11-2011 01:47):
> --- On Sat, 11/5/11, António Pedro Marques<entonio at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I'm waiting for an explanation of how is Green better than Urth and
>> what have Severian's trees got to do with Green.
>
> Blargh.  I think Severian's salvation MIGHT perhaps be false, and that
> the green he brought is no better for man in his current state, only for
> his future state, and he leaves the planet anyway.

Meh. I think this is a point in serious need of review.

> Sev's trees hint at a consciousness that he can't quite touch but is on
> the cusp of contacting him.  My sentient trees on Green is simply those
> ones woken up.

That's fair.

> Please read my whole argument that James is still gentlemanly hosting.
>
> http://www.urth.org/whorlmap/chras-writers/marc-aramini1.htm

I've read it more than once before.

I'm seriously beginning to feel like those people who spent their lifetimes 
trying to circumnavigate Africa's atlantic coast and never got to see the 
Indic. It's something those born in the 20th century never experienced, the 
Unknown-which-we-know-is-there.



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