<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Which are floating hotels. Bam!<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 12/13/10, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <i><danldo@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: (urth) Faterh Inire Theory cont.<br>To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth@lists.urth.net><br>Date: Monday, December 13, 2010, 5:02 PM<br><br><div id="yiv1420527985">There are suites on cruise ships.<br><br><div class="yiv1420527985gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 2:01 PM, DAVID STOCKHOFF <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=dstockhoff@verizon.net">dstockhoff@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="yiv1420527985gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font:inherit;" valign="top">
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.<div class="yiv1420527985im"><br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 12/13/10, Gerry Quinn <i><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:gerryq@indigo.ie" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=gerryq@indigo.ie">gerryq@indigo.ie</a>></i></b> wrote:<br>
</div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;"><div class="yiv1420527985im"><br>From: Gerry Quinn <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:gerryq@indigo.ie" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=gerryq@indigo.ie">gerryq@indigo.ie</a>><br>
Subject: Re: (urth) Faterh Inire Theory cont.<br>To: "The Urth Mailing List" <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:urth@lists.urth.net" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=urth@lists.urth.net">urth@lists.urth.net</a>><br></div>Date: Monday, December 13, 2010, 11:55 AM<div>
<div></div><div class="yiv1420527985h5"><br><br><div><br>From: "Adam Thornton" <<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://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 rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://mc/compose?to=urth@urth.net">urth@urth.net</a><br>
Subscription/information: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.urth.net">http://www.urth.net</a><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br>_______________________________________________<br>
Urth Mailing List<br>
To post, write <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:urth@urth.net" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=urth@urth.net">urth@urth.net</a><br>
Subscription/information: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.urth.net">http://www.urth.net</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Dan'l Danehy-Oakes<br>
</div><br>-----Inline Attachment Follows-----<br><br><div class="plainMail">_______________________________________________<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></td></tr></table>