lameness

Lee Berman · 17 Jan 2011, 14:21 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:21:47 -0500
Subject: (urth) lameness
Message-ID: <SNT123-W38DCAA59332C93240B01CFCFF40 at phx.gbl>

>James Wynn: I've always assumed Fish and Frog referred to the stars Fomalhaut and 
>Rana. But I don't know why those stars are significant in the The Book of the New Sun.

I know of Fomalhaut but was a star named Rana (frog genus) mentioned in BotNS?

James, your eye for detail on human-sized characters is great as is your astronomical
knowledge. Any chance these two could be combined?

Fish and Frog seem to me to be connected, thematically, ecologically, to the planets of 
Blue and Green- oceans being a prime habitat for fish and swampy jungles being the best 
place for frogs. Then we have the revelation at the end of RttW that Inhumi have external 
fertilization.

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