(urth) Like a good Neighbor

[James Wynn]

On 11/23/2011 4:45 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:
> There is no indication that [Green] is in [Urth's] past, with the 
> decayed relics, with the towers that are space ships, with the future 
> of humanity KNOWN to be that of the green man and, lo and behold, 
> vegetative life here (or do you deny that the neighbors and the inhumi 
> are related to plants?)

You very well know that I believe the inhumi are connected somehow to 
the liannas. But the green man does not look like a Neighbor. I'm not 
absolutely certain that a Neighbor could even be captured by the 
Severian's people. Drawing a connection between the Neighbors and the 
green man has as many problems as equating Urth and Green. Let's not buy 
trouble for ourselves.

> The ship left in Typhon's past, Silk thinks of Green as it was before its present state when he winds up on Urth, etc etc.  There is nothing that indicates it is in the past thematically in the book, Green is an old abandoned decayed relic.

Yes, but not _necessarily_ a relic of Urth. Green and Urth could be same 
but Green could be at the same point in the renewal cycle that Urth is 
in Silk's time. I'm not talking about a mantanvara. I'm talking about 
something like Green-->Earth-->Urth-->Ushas. Both Green and Urth are on 
the verge of a renewal.