Abaia and the undines

Matthew King · 09 Dec 2008, 22:42 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: automatthew at gmail.com (Matthew King)
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 16:42:30 -0600
Subject: (urth) Abaia and the undines
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On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Dave Tallman <davetallman at msn.com> wrote:

> 7) They would need a power source to thrive and grow, and the image
> connection between "black beans" in the sea and a black hole in the Sun is
> hard to ignore. They probably didn't just grow by eating fish -- one of them
> is under the ice at the South Pole, after all.

Wolfe presumably knows--and expects us to know--that under the ice at
the South Pole currently sits a continent.  What's going on here? Is
this one of those singleton clues Wolfe likes to drop?

Possibilities:

- Everyone agreed to a cartographic inversion
- Magnetic poles reversed
- Antarctica drifted, like, really far
- A Velikovskian pole flip

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