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From: "Jason Voegele" <voegele.6@osu.edu>
Subject: Re: (urth) Of lost books and millenia
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 00:58:39
[Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other works]
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David Lebling wrote:
>On geography, to CRCulver: The action of the tetralogy takes place =
in
>South America, and yet there is a great river that flows =
southwestward
>over a plain, and great mountains to the north and east of the =
plain.
>This isn't _our_ South America.=20
=20
I hate to use the "C" word, but is there any chance you could
provide citations for the mountains-to-the-east claim? Or at least
point me in the right direction?=20
=20
I think this crops up when Severian comes to Typhon's little home in the =
mountains. I've heard two theories. One, Urth's magnetic poles have =
flip-flopped, thus North and South have taken on the opposite meaning =
that we are accustomed to. Two, Severian has some sort of =
depth-perception problem (sorry, can't recall the technical term) which =
causes him Somehow to confuse left/right/east/west etc.
Jason Voegele
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<DIV>I hate to use the "C" word, but is there any chance =
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<DIV>I think this crops up when Severian comes to Typhon's little home =
in the=20
mountains. I've heard two theories. One, Urth's magnetic =
poles have=20
flip-flopped, thus North and South have taken on the opposite meaning =
that we=20
are accustomed to. Two, Severian has some sort of depth-perception =
problem=20
(sorry, can't recall the technical term) which causes him Somehow to =
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<DIV>Jason Voegele</DIV>
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