# Miracle of Apu-Punchau *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 30 Aug 1998* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### m.driussi *30 Aug 1998, 15:29* Hello there Tony A. West (formerly of Florida, if I'm right), and welcome aboard! The mysterious eclipse. For myself I've decided the shadow was caused by the starship _Tzadkiel_, with her sails wide open. As for the intelligence behind this action: it may be as "accidental" as the miracle of the flying cathedral, that is, it wasn't specifically planned by human/Yesodic entities; or it may be planned, in which case we have as candidates Tzadkiel, OB&F (as you pointed out), and the sailor Severian sliver (after the fatal fight with the dragon--so maybe we should call sailor Severian "Beowolfe"?) who is probably walking around on the ship right now. (Hmmm. If that "death by dragon" smacks of Beowulf, then where would the Grendel be . . . ? Ah! Baldanders, of course! Doesn't get his arm chopped off, true, but does get his "arm" the mace destroyed, and then escapes down the water hole to the Grendel-mommies, the undines . . . ) =mantis= ---