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<div> Marc Aramini<br>
[snip]There had to be a way to prove either Blue was
Urth or a parallel between them that would explain the
mistaken translation across time and space. And there
wasn't one! I looked everywhere, There was no
mechanism. But as soon as "green is urth" came up, lo,
there it was, the mechanism, Silk was thinking of Green
and wanted to take his people there, the city of Nessus
is compared to the city on Green, and know I can't see
that city as anything but Nessus. [snip] I know that I
am right, from the stage of my comprehension of the text
at the time I ran into my barrier, and the fact that
three words overcame the barrier to my satisfaction. <br>
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Marc,<br>
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I was as disturbed as you when the party in IGJ went to Urth by
mistake. So, how do we get from the Urth of Severian to the planets
of Blue and Green? How do you explain the loss of Lune or the huge
change of orbits? For me, that was hurdle that made me decide, well,
maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing. I wanted some attempt to
explain that gap.<br>
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u+16b9<br>
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