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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=marcaramini@yahoo.com
href="mailto:marcaramini@yahoo.com">Marc Aramini</A> </DIV>
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Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night <BR>> Has flung the Stone that puts
the Stars to Flight: <BR>> And Lo! the Hunter of the East has
caught <BR>> The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light. <BR><BR>> Just
wanted to ask a question about this cosmologically. What is
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<DIV>> in this quote? How does it apply to what's going on in
Urth of the New </DIV>
<DIV>> Sun? Is the noose simply an effluvium or arreola of light around
something </DIV>
<DIV>> stationary? Or is it grabbing hold of the turret? Which
stone has been flung?</DIV>
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<DIV>My first thought is that Morning = Head of Day = Severian, and the stone
that puts the stars to flight is the White Fountain. But nothing literal
is intended. I guess the Hunter of the East is the Sun (both in Wolfe’s
interpretation and the original) and the Sultan’s Turret could be a tower in
Nessus, or in the dawn anywhere.</DIV>
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<DIV>- Gerry Quinn</DIV>
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