Dome, Dome on the Range

David Stockhoff · 13 Jan 2011, 12:04 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 07:04:35 -0500
Subject: (urth) Dome, Dome on the Range
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On 1/13/2011 5:39 AM, Mo Holkar wrote:
> At 17:45 12/01/2011, Marc wrote:
>> You know what?  Its ambiguous I'm sorry, not definitive at all.
>>
>> p 340, chapter XLVIII
>>
>> "I woke and found I was hot and flushed, and that Lune was concealed 
>> behind clouds from which fell a gentle rain."
>>
>> Sorry, now that I look at it again it seems like lune is entirely 
>> concealed by rain falling on him on Urth, when I first read it I 
>> thought the surface of Lune was covered in gentle rain clouds.
>>
>> This amiguity is disconcerting at times.  Sorry again.
>
>
> Although he could see if Lune was clouded or not, surely he couldn't 
> possibly see if it was actually raining there at the time?
>
> So imo this unambiguously means that the clouds and rain were locally 
> on Urth.
>
>
It suddenly occurs to me that though Severian sees cloud and rain in 
front of Lune, he never mentions clouds on the face of Lune.

Would lunar clouds just blend into the green at that distance? Do Earth 
clouds only stand out against our blue ocean, which Lune would never 
have enough water to possess?


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