Rudesind and the moon

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From: maa32 <maa32 at dana.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: Rudesind and the moon
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 20:48:08 -0700
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All right, with all this talk of the differences between the environment of=20
Blue and the environment of Urth, with one of the big ones being that "gree=
n"=20
(lune) was a lot closer, according to Hoof, than Green, I thought I remembe=
red=20
years ago puzzling over a shift in the moon in one work of Wolfe's.  Low an=
d=20
behold, when I look back, it's right there in Chapter V of Shadow of the=20
Torturer, (page 40 in my SFBC edition of the book of the new sun, at the en=
d=20
of the chapter.  The look at the picture of Buzz (or whoever) with the flag=20
and Rudesind the curator says,
"Now it is, yes [more fertile].  This was done before they got it irigated.=
 =20
See that gray-brown?  In those times, that's what you'd see if you looked u=
p=20
at her.  Not green like she is now.  DIDN'T SEEM SO BIG EITHER, because it=20
wasn't so close in - what's what old Branwallader used to say.  Now there's=20
trees enough on it to hide Nilammon, as the saw goes."
(SHADOW, Chapter V)

So we know that the moon has moved, and that it could be due to decreased=20
gravity (or some kind of orbitale decay) or something on the part of the su=
n,=20
and that, more importantly, that isn't an irreconcilable change with Ushas =
as=20
Blue.  Now I am interested in figuring out how far 30,000 leagues is (the=20
distance between Blue and Green at confluence)

Still haven't accounted for that doubling of limbs ... damn.
Marc Aramini

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