(urth) Abaia and the undines

[Matthew King]

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Matthew King <automatthew at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>
> Actually, Antarctica is the single strongest argument against my
> theory that the continents have shifted position noticeably by the
> time of BotNS: the Megatherian Erebus is named for the volcano
> on Antarctica in which, apparently, he makes his residence. I was
> kind of surprised that nobody mentioned this when I proposed it.

Antarctica is alive!  Perhaps it is possessed by Thulcandra.