(urth) Faterh Inire Theory cont.
Lee Berman
severiansola at hotmail.com
Mon Dec 13 07:40:54 PST 2010
Just thinking about Gene Wolfe's advocation for the dead/admiration for old masters, I could
imagine him bored in his engineering office in an historic old Chicago building and deciding
to get a ladder to see what was above the drop ceiling. Finding a dusty, long-neglected but
beautiful fresco on the old ceiling I could imagining him thinking, "that sucks. I need to
put this into my BotNS project".
This Jonas talk inspired me to poke around a little. Hethor says his ship is called The Quasar
and the connection to the Ship which brings the White Fountain seems hard to ignore.
The word QUASAR (quasi-stellar radio source) was coined in 1964. It was later discovered that 90%
of such bodies were actually "radio-quiet" and that we were lucky to have discovered the 10% which
are "radio-loud". Could "lucky QUASAR radio-loud" be converted to Fortunate Q-loud?
Just shootin' the stuff.
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