(urth) Abaia and the undines

[Matthew King]

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Dave Tallman <davetallman at msn.com> wrote:

> 7) They would need a power source to thrive and grow, and the image
> connection between "black beans" in the sea and a black hole in the Sun is
> hard to ignore. They probably didn't just grow by eating fish -- one of them
> is under the ice at the South Pole, after all.

Wolfe presumably knows--and expects us to know--that under the ice at
the South Pole currently sits a continent.  What's going on here? Is
this one of those singleton clues Wolfe likes to drop?

Possibilities:

- Everyone agreed to a cartographic inversion
- Magnetic poles reversed
- Antarctica drifted, like, really far
- A Velikovskian pole flip