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From: raster@highfiber.com (Charles Dye) Subject: (urth) Old now is Urth, and none may count her days Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 11:06:49 [Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other works] CRCulver@aol.com asks: >>Charles Dye said: >>Severian's careless hint in chapter 1 that the universe no longer expands. >>File this one in the tens-of-gigayears-to-never range. > >That's news to me. Would you mind typing that sentence or paragraph in? A more useful reference wouldn't hurt either, huh? That's chapter 1 of "Urth." Severian, recalling his determination to launch his manuscript entirely out of his universe, ponders: ... And I marveled to recall that all this had seemed too small for my ambition, and wondered whether it had grown (thought the mystes declare it no longer grows) or I had. At first I figured that this is what comes of receiving your "scientific" education from leeches. But Severian credits "the mystes" for this tidbit, not Mal & Pal. He's either picked this up from a book, or during his years at the House Absolute. (Still can't be right, though. Can it?) raster@highfiber.com