The Floating Islands of Lake Diuturna

The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 07 Sep 2008
https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/5143

John Smith07 Sep 2008, 00:32
In The Sword of the Lictor, Wolfe populates Lake Diuturna with floating islands which move about with the wind. This, I had thought, was another strange and exotic invention that the author used to separate our world from the future Urth. Well, I've been reading Charles Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle, a book I had always meant to read. When Darwin gets to Lake Titicaca high in the Andes, he describes the floating islands in the lake. Looking at Wikipedia, I find that even to this day there are Indians who live on the floating islands. So what I took to be fantastic was simply fact. I wonder if there are more such fantastic realities in TBOTNS. Best wishes, Jack
brunians at brunians.org07 Sep 2008, 00:36

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In The Sword of the Lictor, Wolfe populates Lake Diuturna with floating islands which move about with the wind. This, I had thought, was another strange and exotic invention that the author used to separate our world from the future Urth. Well, I've been reading Charles Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle, a book I had always meant to read. When Darwin gets to Lake Titicaca high in the Andes, he describes the floating islands in the lake. Looking at Wikipedia, I find that even to this day there are Indians who live on the floating islands.
Oh yeah. I thought everybody knew this. .

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