# Green's Diameter II / Dr Dolittle *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 13 Mar 2002* > 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. --- ### Andy Robertson *13 Mar 2002, 22:56* ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Andre-Driussi" > At the time, iirc, we here decided to file it under magic and see what > developed. Sure enough, there were suggestions in RTTW that "flight" was > maybe an easy cover-story for the humans. 1) Where were these? I do not recall them. 2) (on a different subject) Does anyone on the list recall the Dr Dolittle stories? I have some tantalising scraps of memory. If I remember the Doctor flies from the Earth to the Moon on a giant moth, and I think there are gigantic trees on the Moon. Is this a possible source for some of Wolfe's ideas about Green , Lune, or Green/Lune? hartshorn --- ### Michael Andre-Driussi *14 Mar 2002, 19:02 · follows Andy Robertson* Hartshorn, he Q&Q'ed: >> At the time, iirc, we here decided to file it under magic and see what >> developed. Sure enough, there were suggestions in RTTW that "flight" was >> maybe an easy cover-story for the humans. > 1) Where were these? I do not recall them. I didn't take any notes in reading the Short Sun books, alas. (Or hooray.) So I don't remember. I remember the discussion we were having around here as each book came out, and I thought that at one thread more than one person was agreeing with a sense of "fly lie" . . . I know I brought up the "limited teleporation" notion at least once . . . the scenes in the text had to do with N questioning an inhumu/a about the whole process, and s/he (probably she; so it was probably in IGJ rather than RTTW) became coy and evasive as he pressed harder. Maybe this thread would show up in a search of the archives. Sorry I can't be of more help! =mantis= Sirius Fiction booklets on Gene Wolfe, John Crowley Now with UPDATES! http://www.siriusfiction.com/ ---