What's So Great About Ushas?

Roy C. Lackey · 08 Jun 2008, 04:27 · from 2008-June.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 23:27:47 -0500
Subject: (urth) What's So Great About Ushas?
Message-ID: <001e01c8c920$04324940$86cf4a0c at rclackey.stic.net>

Andrew wrote:
>Sorry, I meant earthquakes and such, not flooding, which I assumed 
>was caused by the New Sun melting the ice. Roy was speculating 
>whether a White Fountain created inside the sun would have been 
>less destructive than the tidal forces or whatever of one whizing 
>past Urth on its way to the sun.
>
>But looking back at Baldanders' speech to Valeria, I think I was 
>wrong: he speaks of these forces warming the "dead heart" of Urth & 
>implies that volcanic activity etc will ensure. So my original 
>comment was probably wrong.

Here's the quote:
"It has arrived at last, madame. The force that made
your bells sound has warmed the cold heart of Urth once
more. Now they toll the death of continents." (URTH, XLII, 300)

-Roy

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