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<DIV>wow - "the survivors of Urth are more of an Edenic group than a Noahide one"<BR></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Jeff Wilson <jwilson@io.com><BR>To: The Urth Mailing List <urth@lists.urth.net><BR>Sent: Tuesday, July 8, 2008 4:35:48 PM<BR>Subject: Re: (urth) Wolfe and Noah<BR><BR>> May I ask a simple— possibly very naive — question about the climax of<BR>> "The Urth of the New Sun"?<BR><BR>The short answers/spoilers are:<BR><BR>- the world doesn't stay flooded; when the White Fountain passes on into<BR>the sun, the tides return to normal.<BR><BR>- the destruction is widely spread around the world, and Erebus and<BR>Abaia, being big as mountains, are bigger targets for more damage, and as<BR>likely to be washed away as any other geographic feature.<BR><BR>- as the only other time-traveler of Commonwealth extraction and the only<BR>female, Juturna like saves Severian because she's his missing sister.<BR><BR>- very large creatures
"swim among the stars" in that they can florish in<BR>microgravity as on The Ship, and that The Brook Madregot allows beings to<BR>swim through time and space like the Corridors of Time allows beings to<BR>walk or run through time and space.<BR><BR>- the Urth of the Book is in a previous Big Bang/Grand Gnab cycle of the<BR>universe, before the promise was made.<BR><BR>- the survivors of Urth are more of an Edenic group than a Noahide one.<BR><BR>Jeff<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Urth Mailing List<BR>To post, write <A href="mailto:urth@urth.net" ymailto="mailto:urth@urth.net">urth@urth.net</A><BR>Subscription/information: <A href="http://www.urth.net/" target=_blank>http://www.urth.net</A><BR></DIV></DIV></div><br>
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