Chapters and Pages
Volume V
Prologue
Chapter 1, 17–48
Chapter 2, 49–68
Chapter 3, 69–94
Chapter 4, 95–122
Chapter 5, 123–146
Chapter 6, 147–170
Chapter 7, 171–190
Chapter 8, 191–194
Chapter 9, 195–224
Chapter 10, 225–253
Chapter 11, 255–282
Chapter 12, 283–311
Chapter 13, 313–341
Chapter 14, 343–361
Chapter 15, 363–370
Chapter 16, 371–381
Volume VI
Chapter 1, 15–34
Chapter 2, 35–49
Chapter 3, 50–59
Chapter 4, 60–73
Chapter 5, 74–100
Chapter 6, 101–109
Chapter 7, 110–119
Chapter 8, 120–127
Chapter 9, 128–147
Chapter 10, 148–170
Chapter 11, 171–182
Chapter 12, 183–191
Chapter 13, 192–207
Chapter 14, 208–223
Chapter 15, 224–235
Chapter 16, 236–246
Chapter 17, 247–269
Chapter 18, 270–280
Chapter 19, 281–296
Chapter 20, 297–311
Chapter 21, 312–321
Chapter 22, 322–337
Chapter 23, 338–355
Chapter 24, 356–374
Chapter 25, 375–384
Volume VII
Chapter 1, 13–30
Chapter 2, 31–53
Chapter 3, 54–67
Chapter 4, 68–91
Chapter 5, 92–107
Chapter 6, 108–140
Chapter 7, 141–156
Chapter 8, 157–176
Chapter 9, 177–193
Chapter 10, 194–220
Chapter 11, 221–236
Chapter 12, 237–258
Chapter 13, 259–276
Chapter 14, 277–304
Chapter 15, 305–317
Chapter 16, 318–336
Chapter 17, 337–370
Chapter 18, 371–382
Chapter 19, 383–397
Chapter 20, 398–408
Afterword, 409–412
Appendix 2: Typos of
The Book of the Short Sun
(first edition, hardcover)
• In Saldo (V, chap. 1, 27). Soldo.
• “fo-reign” [possibly bad hyphen or affected speech] “even,er” [need space between comma and “er”] (V, chap. 2, 58).
• Silk old me once (V, chap. 14, 354). Told.
• “shadeup, and as the old people say” (VI, chap. 2, 38). Cut “and.”
• “and If I don’t” (VI, chap. 3, 58). Small “i” for “if.”
• “reigning up” (VI, chap. 17, 263). Reining.
• “worry about him, He can see” (VI, chap. 18, 280). Small “h” for “he.”
• “much diferent” (VI, chap. 19, 282). Different.
• “thousand and thousands” (VI, chap. 23, 352). Thousands.
• “she’s no inhuma, miralaly” (VI, chap. 24, 359). Miralay.
• “urging it between times to go the Short Sun” (VII, chap. 1, 15). Go to the.
• fingers around it. “Thank you” (VII, chap. 4, 85). Double quote after “it” and new paragraph for “Thank you,” possibly. (Delirium.)
• “You lost your yourself?” (VII, chap. 8, 169).
• “sugurs and sibyls” (VII, chap. 16, 323). Augurs.
• “let himself breath again” (VII, chap. 16, 330). Breathe.
• “pray at his beside” (VII, chap. 16, 330). Bedside.
• “lay down” (VII, chap. 17, 345). Should be “lie down,” but might be correct as this is Hoof writing.
• “nothing better one or two” (VII, chap. 17, 361). Better than one.
• “Pretty I stopped” (VII, chap. 17, 368). Pretty soon I stopped.
Appendix 3: Conflict between
The Book of the Short Sun and
The Book of the New Sun
A. Age of the torturer’s apprentice
Sixteen-year-old Hoof is surprised that Severian is younger than he is (VII, chap. 19, 389). This makes it seem as though Severian is around thirteen at the point when he has Triskele the dog, which is quite different from the age of twenty given in the “History of Urth” entry of Lexicon Urthus, Second Edition (179). The age of around thirteen would be much more fitting for Severian at that time. The reason I went with twenty in the Lexicon is because of the way the text deals with the apprentices becoming journeymen in clear proximity to the dog episode.
B. Period of the apprentice’s dog
In Severian’s telling, he has the dog for only seven days: “A week after I had carried him down, I found only Triskele’s hobbling footprints in the mud” (The Shadow of the Torturer, chap. 4, 42). During that time, he reports, “In a dream I walked through the fourth level again, and found a huge friend there with dripping jaws. It spoke to me” (41).
In contrast, the period between warps from Blue to Urth is longer than one week. It is difficult to say for sure, but the stretch between Day 46 on Timeline 5 and Day 13 on Timeline 6 seems more like three or four weeks.
This is cause for great concern, since it is one of the only times where we have concrete time passage in both real space and dream space, but this time the time-compression is on the real-space side, and my assumption is that warping does not involve time travel.
During a warp to Urth, Hoof sees the dog in question and reports: “Its head was as big as a bull’s without the horns, and its mouth could have held my head and bitten down on it like a cherry” (VII, chap. 19, 396). This sounds very big indeed. In fact, it sounds suspiciously like Severian’s dream dog rather than the real dog, and here we find an elegant solution to the paradox.
C. Size of Lune
Observations of Lune compared with Green are difficult to reconcile.
Perhaps a year before conjunction, Green is bigger than a man’s thumb (meaning an angular diameter of greater than 1 degree), yet Lune, at somewhere between .52 degrees and .82 degrees, is bigger and brighter than Green ever is (VII, chap. 17, 356). Lune seems to be too small in Urth’s sky.
Based on calculations given under the entry on Green, where Green’s maximum size at conjunction is 4.3 degrees, Lune should be around 4.5 degrees.
There are two ways to make Lune appear bigger: move it closer, or increase its size.
Moving Lune
To shift Lune’s orbit such that the Moon would have an angular diameter of 4.5 degrees:
4.5 = 57.3 ∑ 2,160 / R
0.078534 = 2,160 / R
27,548 miles (9,183 leagues) = R
This orbit is less than a fifth of Severian’s figure of 50,000 leagues.
Growing Lune
Another possibility is to use terraforming to increase the diameter of Lune.
4.5 = 57.3 ∑ D / 150,000 miles
0.078534 = D / 150,000 miles
11,780 miles = Diameter
Moving and Growing Lune
Since the close orbit of 150,000 miles messes up the 28-day calendar, here is a model to explore a bigger diameter Lune at the Moon’s regular distance:
4.5 = 57.3 ∑ D / 240,000 miles
0.078534 = D / 240,000 miles
18,848 miles = Diameter
This model is interesting because it fulfills a number of points
1. Larger size in the sky (4.5 degrees).
2. Proper orbit for a 28-day calendar.
3. Diameter in line with habitability. Dole’s models range in diameter “from 6,200 miles to 10,000 miles” (Planets for Man, 94).
These two “grown Lune” models are getting close to the fantastic scale of Jack Vance’s Big Planet (of the novels Big Planet and Showboat World), a sphere with a diameter of 25,000 miles and a de
nsity of 2 (g/cm3), about the density of brick. This raises questions about habitability for the grown Lunes.
The Moon’s density is 3.34 (g/cm3). Using this density, Lune with a nearly 19,000-mile diameter would have 1.4 G at the surface. Dropping the density to 1.3 would lower the gravity to 0.56 G.
Of course the “moving and growing” model throws out Severian’s orbital figure of 50,000 leagues in favor for one of 80,000 leagues. Severian’s figure in this case would join the “leagues-high” Wall of Nessus and the “league-high” cliff near Casdoe’s cabin.
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Table of Contents
Contents
Note on Citations
Ring Bell at Gate
Introduction
The Long Sun Half
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
Appendix 1: Languages of the Whorl
Appendix 2: Typos of The Book of the Long Sun
Appendix 3: Pagination of The Book of the Long Sun
Appendix 4: Pagination of The Book of the Long Sun
The Short Sun Half
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
Appendix 1: Pagination of The Book of the Short Sun
Appendix 2: Typos of The Book of the Short Sun
Appendix 3: Conflict between The Book of the Short Sun and The Book of the New Sun
Bibliography
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