Green is Urth Redux

Gerry Quinn · 11 Jan 2011, 19:02 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: gerryq at indigo.ie (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:02:00 -0000
Subject: (urth) Green is Urth Redux
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From: "Marc Aramini" <marcaramini at yahoo.com>
> It matters if the Whorl is a hollowed out lune.

But it can't be.  Lune is orbiting Urth in Severian's time, and is green in 
colour.  The Whorl was launched long before that time, when Scylla was 
alive - and the Whorl has no surface vegetation.  (Also, of course, the 
Whorl appears to be a lot smaller, at least in diameter; the distance from 
the interior surface to the Long Sun does not seem to be very great, and it 
takes only three days to walk through tunnels from the interior surface to 
the outside.)

- Gerry Quinn

> --- On Tue, 1/11/11, Gerry Quinn <gerryq at indigo.ie> wrote:
> > As for the orbit of the Whorl, I don't think we know much
> > about the details of its orbit (or indeed the orbital
> > details of Green and Blue). Perhaps it only comes
> > close to Blue sometimes. I don't know that it
> > matters,

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