Sun's Dying <> Natural

m.driussi · 31 Jan 1998, 15:37 · from urth-v0006.mbox · original

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From: m.driussi at genie.geis.com
Subject: (urth) Sun's Dying <> Natural
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 98 15:37:00 GMT
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[Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other work=
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Reply:  Item #5531003 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01#

Dave,

Hello there and welcome aboard.

The Old Sun is not dying of natural causes.

I repeat, the Old Sun is =3Dnot=3D dying of natural causes (i.e., stellar
evolution).

Somebody put a black hole in the Old Sun at some point (for purposes
unknown, but sure and I've got a few theories) and it is now dying
from that.

This is established in the text.  And another example of the
"collapsing scale" used so often in TBOTNS.

=3Dmantis=3D

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