Urth Digest, Vol 46, Issue 30

Duncan Truter · 18 Jun 2008, 07:32 · from 2008-June.txt.gz

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From: dtruter at gmail.com (Duncan Truter)
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:32:36 -0700
Subject: (urth) Urth Digest, Vol 46, Issue 30
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I get the urth list in a daily digest so I'll quote what I'm replying
to. the quotes may be a bit out.
"
Jeff Wilson wrote:
Marc Aramini wrote:
> if the jungle hut proselytes with isangoma are any indication then christ existed in urth&#39;s past.  Also, that picture of Buzz Aldron and the old airless moon indicates at least some of our history is urth history.  Christ would  be an odd elision.

IIRC we established that there is no picture of the original moon
landing that matches the composition described. It's either a mistake on
Wolfe's part, a painting (perhaps by Michael Collins or Alan Bean)
rather than a photograph, or a hint that Urth and Earth have divergent
histories.
"
I don't know about you lot, but the word "Isangoma" is a totally
everyday word to me that means shaman/witch doctor
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangoma). It's not a Wolfe word, it's a
real life word from now. Wolfe must have intended this scene to be in
our past (early/mid 1900s, if I recall the air/aeroplane correctly). I
think Isangoma is too specific to not mean what I think it means.

Duncan

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