The Morality of the Hierogrammates

Paul B · 24 Jul 2007, 00:09 · from 2007-July.txt.gz

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From: pb.stuff at gmail.com (Paul B)
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:09:08 -0400
Subject: (urth) The Morality of the Hierogrammates
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As for who cares, perhaps Wolfe does.
A theme of his is natural explanations for the supernatural, such as the
magic of Devil in the Forest, or the mystery of the Pelerine cathedral in
BotNS.
I contend that the feasibility of the flood is a deliberate puzzle.  The
event that is the culmination of the whole byzantine process is not
something to be hand-waved away by scifi pseudoscience in a book this
serious.  I think it's purposely something that cannot be explained by
physics in an endogenous system, but should be explained nonetheless.

P

On 7/23/07, brunians at brunians.org <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
>
> There's this white hole moving through the solar system, see, before it
> hits the Old Sun. It's stellar sized gravity well causes the changes on
> Urth.
>
> Who knows (or cares, particularly) if the physics is right?
>
>
> .
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