Urth before Earth

Roy C. Lackey · 23 Jul 2006, 04:48 · from 2006-July.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 23:48:41 -0500
Subject: (urth) Urth before Earth
Message-ID: <001a01c6ae13$483b5f20$9a3ec6d8 at rclackey.stic.net>

bsharp wrote:
> An Earth book (Bible) is quoted from and we see a
>yellow sun and an airplane.
[snip]
>The only other place I know of in BoTNS where an Earth book is quoted is L.
>Carroll's Through The Looking Glass, in the Antechamber, by Jonas.

There are other Earth books quoted in the Urth Cycle. Iirc, someone,
somewhere, has listed them. Mantis mentions the line from Marlowe's FAUSTUS
(CLAW, chapter XXVIII) in the "brown book" entry in his LEXICON URTHUS, as
well as an URTH quote from Genesis 37:9.

-Roy

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