Abaia and the undines

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 09 Dec 2008, 22:47 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 14:47:49 -0800
Subject: (urth) Abaia and the undines
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On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Matthew King <automatthew at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Actually, Antarctica is the single strongest argument against my
theory that the continents have shifted position noticeably by the
time of BotNS: the Megatherian Erebus is named for the volcano
on Antarctica in which, apparently, he makes his residence. I was
kind of surprised that nobody mentioned this when I proposed it.

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