<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">On board a ship, those "suites" would have been called something else: compartments, probably.<div><br></div><div>"Suites' are found in office buildings and hotels.<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 12/13/10, Gerry Quinn <i><gerryq@indigo.ie></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Gerry Quinn <gerryq@indigo.ie><br>Subject: Re: (urth) Faterh Inire Theory cont.<br>To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth@lists.urth.net><br>Date: Monday, December 13, 2010, 11:55 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail"><br>From: "Adam Thornton" <<a ymailto="mailto:adam@io.com" href="/mc/compose?to=adam@io.com">adam@io.com</a>><br><br><br>> On 12/12/2010 07:11 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:<br>>> <br>>> Anyway, I don't want to get into a war over such details. I am defending the theory,
but as I said I am not wedded to it. And our interpretations of BotNS do not stand or fall on the question of whether the Antechamber was or was not part of Jonas's starship. But I ask again: has anyone any better explanation for Jonas's (confirmed) architectural observations and the other things I mentioned?<br>> Architecture?<br>> <br>> Well, Jonas was from a time not that far in advance of ours, one in which recognizably Korean names were still familiar.<br>> <br>> And the room was pretty clearly a large palatial room converted to boring drop-ceiling partitioned office space.<br><br>Actually, no. It was several suites joined together.<br><br>> One suspects that this has been the fate of many monarchical buildings converted to bureaucratic workplaces as the Type Of Government clanked along its chain, in our time. I think it is likely that Jonas, as the representative of Near Future [Ea|U]rth is more
familiar with Cubeville than is Severian.<br><br>But is Jonas the representative of Near Future Urth? He is a robot built to serve on a starship; he may well have been carried aboard in a box along with Hethor's paracoita. (Here's a thought - did Talos use bits of the paracoita to make Jolenta? Jonas's love explained at last!)<br><br>Jonas might well never have seen Urth before his spaceship crashed there.<br><br>- Gerry Quinn<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Urth Mailing List<br>To post, write <a ymailto="mailto:urth@urth.net" href="/mc/compose?to=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></blockquote></div></td></tr></table>