second dream team

James Wynn · 24 Sep 2008, 01:45 · from 2008-September.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:45:29 -0500
Subject: (urth) second dream team
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Dave Tallman says:
> Blue or Green being Urth is only one possible explanation.

Unfortunately for people like me who find the Urth/Lune = Blue/Green concept 
appealing, there are three more very glaring alternatives.

1) Wolfe just likes the Blue/Green combination for reasons no one has been 
able to identify (to my knowledge). We see it in The Fifth Head of Cerberus 
and in Pandora By Holly Hollander.

2) This is not the only parallel I've noted between tBotSS and tFHoC, so it 
is worth considering that Blue is St. Croix.

3) Thematically, the reason Blue has multi-limbed monsters is because it is 
another tip of the hat to Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Short Sun is an homage 
to Rice's Martian stories just as the Long Sun is an omage to the Pellucidar 
stories. So as Don Doggett once pointed out, if the Whorl has returned to 
Sol, then Blue is just as (or more) likely to be Verthandi. Remember that 
Mars might once have been covered by water, and I suppose one could imagine 
that it could be again.

J

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