planetary problems

Jeff Wilson · 28 Dec 2010, 02:54 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 20:54:25 -0600
Subject: (urth) planetary problems
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On 12/27/2010 5:32 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:
> Thanks Jeff. Wow, I don't know what to do with those quotes, but I feel
> like they are important, very important to understanding what happened
> to Lune. "Time runs as we ask here, and we like their light" Sounds too
> godlike in its implications to really get my mind around without really
> paying attention to the physical description of Yesod. Has anybody tried
> to explain why Apheta's face is up there? "when we require them, the
> hierogrammates will build more" ugh.

In Chapter XXIII, I believe it is plain that Alpheta's face is there 
because she's standing on just the other side of the portal through 
which Sev and Gunnie have just plunged; why it lingers on for as long as 
it does, perhaps she is supervising his safe return to The Ship, and it 
is not a given, even though Tzadkiel has seen him return?

In Chapter XLVIII, that is a toughie. It is not just a fleeting glimpse 
like one might expect of an absent but expected or remembered person, 
but seems to linger for a time...possibly another portal opened to watch 
over him?

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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