Blue as Ushas - long

Andy Robertson · 18 Nov 2002, 19:51 · from urth-v0211.mbox · original

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From: "Andy Robertson" <andywrobertson at clara.co.uk>
Subject: Re: (urth) Blue as Ushas - long
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 19:51:20 -0000
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See Typhon's discourse to Severian . .

I don't have it to hand but it includes something along the lines of "the
scientists were wrong - solar radiation declined two parts in a  thousand,
then stabilised . . . "

The implication being not merely that the Sun had been wounded in Typhon's
time, but that he had had a part in it.

    hartshorn

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>
To: <urth at urth.net>
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 7:29 PM
Subject: RE: (urth) Blue as Ushas - long

Joe wrote:

> This is just from recollection, I don't have the book on
> hand, but I seem to recall that Typhon sent people off Urth
> on the spaceships because the sun was dying and meant to go
> himself but the rebels prevented him.

Yes, I recall that also ... but this does not automatically
imply that the Old Sun has just started to die in his time.
As I said, I had the impression it had been going on rather
longer than that.

--Blattid

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