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Son of Witz26 Nov 2008, 00:06as archived

AstroEngineering

Can anyone help me out with this "black hole" thing? I see how it's inferred from the text at one point, when Aquastor Malrubius says: (Citadel, XXXI, Sand Garden) "You know of the chasms of space, which some call the Black Pits, from which no speck of matter or gleam of light ever returns. But what you have not known until now is that these chasms have their counterparts in White Fountains, from which matter and energy rejected by a higher universe flow in endless cataract into this one." and there is the Worm eating the Sun: Claw IV, Boquet "You, the hero who will destroy the black worm that devours the sun;" (more on that quote later) but where does the idea that the Black Hole is the product of AstroEngineering. I don't have the Lexicon on hand, but I don't remember it giving a textual reference. what do folks make of that? Do the Hierodules say they put it there in Urth?

Jeff Wilson30 Nov 2008, 20:36as archived

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Son of Witz wrote: Can anyone help me out with this "black hole" thing? I see how it's inferred from the text at one point, when Aquastor Malrubius says: (Citadel, XXXI, Sand Garden) "You know of the chasms of space, which some call the Black Pits, from which no speck of matter or gleam of light ever returns. But what you have not known until now is that these chasms have their counterparts in White Fountains, from which matter and energy rejected by a higher universe flow in endless cataract into this one." and there is the Worm eating the Sun: Claw IV, Boquet "You, the hero who will destroy the black worm that devours the sun;" (more on that quote later) but where does the idea that the Black Hole is the product of AstroEngineering. I don't have the Lexicon on hand, but I don't remember it giving a textual reference. what do folks make of that? Do the Hierodules say they put it there in Urth?

ISTR that it has been traced to the black beans thrown by a woman, and that the woman has been identified as Typhon's daughter Scylla, but I couldn't provide you with the provenance or a reference.

Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com < http://www.io.com/~jwilson >