The Floating Islands of Lake Diuturna
The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 07 Sep 2008
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John Smith — 07 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

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brunians at brunians.org — 07 Sep 2008, 00:36
  in reply to John Smith

> 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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