Sigh.

Lee Berman · 11 Jan 2011, 21:30 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:30:07 -0500
Subject: (urth) Sigh.
Message-ID: <SNT123-W14DD48BDA8E85D66B227AECF0F0 at phx.gbl>

>Dan'l Danehy-Oakes: Urth's sun, still red, is visible in the skies of Blue.
>Unless you want to propose that Ushas and Lune, in their distant,
>post-Severian, future, are transported (a) across the sea of stars and
>(b) backwards in time, they're different systems.

Seems to be so. It would take a lot of space-time contortions to make the theory work.
So, is that it? Is that all there is to it? An academic proof of incorrectness? For me 
there is a human aspect. Will it really be a joyous day for the List when Marc Aramini is
forced to retract all hopes for Urth=Green and admit eternal, irrevocable wrongness?
Party hats and noisemakers on that day?  

Pithy platitude of the day: It's the journey not the destination. It's the chase
not the catch. Whether you see people's lupine theories as journey companions or as a 
nasty little fox to corner and kill, these principles apply. Speaking strictly for myself,
I found my thought processes stimulated more by trying to think of ways to support
Marc's theory than by trying to delete it. 

>There's all sorts of good thematic/symbolic stuff going on, of course,....

How about ecological and spiritual, hey? ;- )

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