Prior Race On Blue And Green

Matthew Groves · 17 Dec 2007, 16:21 · from 2007-December.txt.gz

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From: matthewalangroves at gmail.com (Matthew Groves)
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:21:38 -0600
Subject: (urth) Prior Race On Blue And Green
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On Dec 17, 2007 3:38 AM, Pedro Pereira <domus_artemis at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:04:08 -0800
> > From: danldo at gmail.com
>
> >
> > People,
> >
> > The Blue-Green system is NOT the Urth system. Wolfe has stated
> > this as unequivocally as he ever states anything.
>
>
>
>  I think I've read every single Wolfe interview on the web and I still am
> unconvinced. I didn't read any unequivocal answer from wolfe on this matter.
> Could you point it out?

http://listserver.dreamhost.com/pipermail/urth-urth.net/2006-July/002501.html

[quote]
Gene Wolfe was asked by James Jordan: "Which of the following, if any, are
physically (not in some merely literary or symbolic sense) the same planets
as Blue and Green, in the same order?:

Ushas and Lune
Urth and Lune
Lune and Ushas
Lune and Urth
Two Urths
Two Ushases
Two Lunes"

Gene Wolfe: "None"
[unquote]

I believe that qualifies as unequivocal.

Can we talk about "And When They Appear"?  Or something.

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