AstroEngineering

Jeff Wilson · 30 Nov 2008, 20:36 · from 2008-November.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:36:40 -0600
Subject: (urth) AstroEngineering
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Son of Witz wrote:
> Can anyone help me out with this "black hole" thing?
> I see how it's inferred from the text at one point, when Aquastor Malrubius says: (Citadel, XXXI, Sand Garden)
> "You know of the chasms of space, which some call the Black Pits,
> from which no speck of matter or gleam of light ever returns. But
> what you have not known until now is that these chasms have their
> counterparts in White Fountains, from which matter and energy
> rejected by a higher universe flow in endless cataract into this one."
> 
> and there is the Worm eating the Sun:  Claw IV, Boquet
> "You, the hero who will destroy the black worm that devours the sun;"
> (more on that quote later)
> 
> but where does the idea that the Black Hole is the product of
> AstroEngineering. I don't have the Lexicon on hand, but I don't remember
> it giving a textual reference.
> 
> what do folks make of that?
> Do the Hierodules say they put it there in Urth?

ISTR that it has been traced to the black beans thrown by a woman, and 
that the woman has been identified as Typhon's daughter Scylla, but I 
couldn't provide you with the provenance or a reference.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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