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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=jerry_friedman@yahoo.com
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Gerry Quinn <A
href="mailto:gerry@bindweed.com">gerry@bindweed.com</A><BR><BR><BR>> If all
the passages from the Chrasmological Writings really are quotations,
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late 20th century.</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>> > Whatever <BR>> > about ‘cycles’, Wolfe’s Urth is much
the same as our Earth, and it’s prehistory <BR>> > at least (the era of
the Dawn Men, extending up to the colonisation of the inner <BR>> > Solar
System) appears to be nearly identical.<BR><BR>> Presumably except for
Jesus.</DIV>
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<DIV>Jesus existed in the universe of Urth – Silk has a vision of him entering
Jerusalem on Palm Sunday.<BR></DIV>
<DIV><BR>> > Not just the Chrasmological <BR>> > Writings but
various objects and events in BotNS testify to this.<BR><BR>> But how far
would Wolfe go in familiarizing things from Urth's past? Could he </DIV>
<DIV>> have changed the names of their saints to the names of ours?
Could he have</DIV>
<DIV>> changed Severian's description of the "Apollo" painting so we
would recognize it? </DIV>
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<DIV>Who knows? He may even have selected or substituted the particular
Chrasmological Writings recorded by Horn, so that prehistoric readers will
correctly interpret their nature and origin.</DIV>
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<DIV>- Gerry Quinn</DIV>
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