For Jerry- a response

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 27 Feb 2002, 16:18 · from urth-v0202.mbox · original

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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>
Subject: RE: (urth) For Jerry- a response
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 08:18:23 -0800
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Chiming in -=20

Marc, while I find a lot of attraction in your theory that=20
Blue/Green is a much older Ushas/Lune (particularly the implicit
identity of the Mother and Scylla-on-Urth), it just isn't plausible=20
for a largish variety of reasons.=20

Probably the most significant of these, for me, is that if we take=20
the more-or-less canonical set of assumptions about the voyage of=20
the _Whorl_ (discussed in some detail in the archives by Mantis and=20
others), the timelines are just too _neat_ to drop: but there are=20
also the questions of Greenish gravity (despite the tower-climbing=20
scene, I believe that lunar-type gravity would warrant some pretty
direct observation by a character coming from urth-type gravity),
of the apparent visibility of Urth's red sun in the Bluvian sky, of
the doubled body parts of Bluvian life forms*, etc., etc.

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* but not Greenish life forms? I don't recall enough description
  of other Greenish beasties, but it seems pretty clear that the
  inhumi, at least, are four-limbed. Though ... h'mmm. Is it at
  any point stated clearly that the inhumi were equally successful
  at masquerading as Neighbors?
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Anyway, Marc, I think most of your other hypotheses about tBotSS=20
work just as well (or as poorly; I'm still sceptical-but-
interested, with the observation that there aren't very many=20
overall models of this Book on display as yet) without trying to=20
force identity of Blue with Urth, Green with Lune. And, in the end,
it _does_ feel forced: which is the problem. In general, when you=20
have a "good" model of one of Wolfe's texts, it doesn't feel forced.

--Blattid

--=20

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