<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">That line is ambiguous, but I conservatively read that as meaning "between suns." In other words, a "creation" is a world in that case, not a universe. <div><br></div><div>Perhaps a survey of Severian's use of that term is in order.<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 12/17/10, Son of Witz <i><Sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Son of Witz <Sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org><br>Subject: Re: (urth) The Outsider<br>To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth@lists.urth.net><br>Date: Friday, December 17, 2010, 3:38 PM<br><br><div id="yiv530206632"><div><br>Yes, my point was that we have a book that crossed from one creation to the other, so we may have other things, which may be the Astronaut Painting, which is NOT a photo, so it's not impotant that no
one can pinpoint it. I think it's likely that it SHOULD be understood as an Earth Astronaut with a USA flag, beacuse Wolfe was the script supervisor on the (aborted) Innovation Comics adaptation. The image shown is as I describe. I think he would have vetoed that if it was wrong.</div><div><br></div><div>But it doesn't address incarnation, which is why I changed the subject. I was breaking a tangent off from the Christ discussion.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, Master Ultan says that the library houses "<span class="yiv530206632Apple-style-span" style="">books cased in perfumed woods shipped across the inconceivable gulf between creations - books doubly precious because no one on Urth can read them."</span></div><div><span class="yiv530206632Apple-style-span" style=""><br></span></div><div><span class="yiv530206632Apple-style-span" style="">So I'm saying each creation, acording to the text, is not a closed system.</span></div><div><span
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