(urth) Intentional Errors

[Jeff Wilson]

On 12/17/2010 3:03 AM, Lee Berman wrote:
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> In a previous discussion of this topic I found it a pretty compelling conclusion that
> if Briah is Christian and Urth is Earth in the future then either:
> 1. God has broken his Covenant with humanity to never again send a Flood.


I think it the flood thing was an oversight, though the retcon of it 
being a previous creation is a laudably clever answer to the riddle of 
just how far in the future the books are set.

Of course it could be one of the intentional errors put in the book, 
like in Islamic art, though also as part of the collection of golden age 
SF tropes. Whacking great technical bloopers appear in otherwise classic 
stories, and this would explain the unexplainable problems like how tall 
the Wall of Nessus really is, or Lune's "closer" orbit.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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