eclipse

Roy C. Lackey · 10 Jun 2008, 18:46 · from 2008-June.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:46:39 -0500
Subject: (urth) eclipse
Message-ID: <000a01c8cb2a$5bf7f1a0$7ace4a0c at rclackey.stic.net>

Marc Aramini wrote:

>>>I have had the suspicion that some cosmic body was being switched around
at the eclipse -that aphetas planet was actualy switched with the moon,
producing the increasingly fierce tides and making the moon seem bigger.
There is a scene when severian is simming and looks up to feel watched from
the moon.  Unfortunately I really need to read urth again.<<<

>>>of course the problem with this switching is the vast disparity in time
between apu punchau and the new sun<<<

The bigger problem is that "aphetas planet", as you put it, is in a
completely different universe from Lune.

-Roy

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