From: Michael Straight <straight@email.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: (urth) Why does Ushas need the White Fountain?
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 16:12:25 


I asked:

> >Urth's sun is dying for some reason.  Severian goes to get a White
> >Fountain, but brings it back to a different universe, to Ushas, whose sun
> >is, as far as I know, doing just fine.  How does this action help either
> >Urth or Ushas?

On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Marc Coleman answered:

> Ushas is Urth post-White Fountain.  The White Fountain is the new sun of
> the same universe that Urth was in.  

So Ushas and Urth are in the same universe?  Ushas is simply Urth some
years later when the newly restored sun has melted the ice?   Somehow I
thought it was more complicated than that.

-Rostrum


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