(urth) Black hole timing, "punishment" etc

[thalassocrat at nym.hush.com]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:22:02 +1000 Dave Tallman 
<davetallman at msn.com> wrote:
>Andrew wrote:
>> As far as I can see, in Typhon's time Sev never comments that 
>the 
>> sun seems brighter than in his time, that he can no longer see 
>the 
>> stars by daylight etc etc etc. 
>The sky is cloudy on their arrival, but I notice quite a few 
>descriptions that show a brighter sun:
>
>XXVIII: "We had come to Urth through clouds, as I have said: but 
>the 
>tender found an opening in them... hull and masts were no more 
>than a 
>pinprick of golden light. At length we saw her blossom to a 
>shining 
>speck, like the steel that falls from a file..."
>
>Sev seems extra-dense not to draw the right conclusion, but he may 

>be 
>dazed by his  new connection to the White Fountain.

Sorry, that doesn;t work. You can't just point to descriptions of 
bright sunshine, or things shining in the sun; these occur in Sev's 
time as well.