(urth) Wolfe covers

[Son of Witz]

On Jan 3, 2011, at 9:41 AM, Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com>
> 
> On 1/2/2011 11:00 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:
> > *From:* Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com>
> > **On 1/2/2011 8:52 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:
> >  >> *From:* Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com <mailto:jwilson at io.com>>
> >  > **
> >  > On 1/2/2011 5:25 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:
> > 
> > [cover painting]
> > 
> >> >> > http://www.amazon.com/Book-New-Sun-Gene-Wolfe/dp/1568658079
> ...
> 
> >> Maybe it's my partial color blindness. Just out of curiosity, what color
> >> is Lune in that picture? It looks mostly pale blue to me.
> >> 
> >> Bigger version:
> >> 
> >> http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/1568658079/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_all
> >> 
> >> (I can see the red better there, though it's still not working for me.)
> >
> >There is a lot blue among the green splotches, but that's to be expected in a new moon near sunset / waning >moon at sunrise, the worst seeing conditions for color viewing. The moon is largely lit by reflected Urthlight, >plus any local overhead lighting in the domes, seen through the greatest thickness of atmosphere and the >greatest amount of smog and haze, with the least amount of direct sunlight short of an eclipse.
> >
> >The huge moon is an interesting take; it's almost five times larger than the sun in subtended angle, implying a >cozy 17,000 leagues distance. Of course, I'm of the opinion that absent-minded old Rudesinde is mistaken >about it being closer, it's actually moving further off as always.
> 
> Thanks.  I would never have concluded that that yellowish ball by Severian's legs is the sun or that that pale, almost uniform moon is new.  If it were important, I'd try to figure out where we're looking from and what angle to the vertical Severian is standing at.
> 
> Jerry Friedman
> 
> 

Man, you guys crack me up. You think that Don Maitz is thinking about subtended angles and how many miles away the moon is, at least in a way that can be calculated. Ha!
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