(urth) Abaia and the undines

[Adam Thornton]

On Dec 9, 2008, at 4:42 PM, Matthew King wrote:

> 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

Well, you know, everyone likes to be at the top of the map.....perhaps  
the Ascians, and the trans-Ascians, put Erebus at the North Pole.

Or maybe It is in fact just the eponymous Volcano God.  I wonder what  
dating It is like.

Adam
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