(urth) Green is Urth Redux

[Jeff Wilson]

On 1/11/2011 12:12 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:
>
> Well, Lune is a problem.  There are two or three things that keep coming back to haunt me.  One is Apheta peering down from Lune, the other is its change to verdancy and Rudesind's claim that it is closer (or bigger?).

Rudesind says both, and attributes to the knowledge to Branwallader. 
However, the apparent size of the moon is notoriously misjudgable 
(looking larger near the horizon then when overhead) and the outward 
movement of the moon has been established in the popular culture by no 
less an authority than Charles Shultz's "Peanuts". All the speculation 
of how the moon would have been moved conversely (the current LEXICON 
URTHUS has several pages and some math) is rather less convincing than 
the thought that the demonstrably mis-rembering Rudesind might be 
mistakenly reversing Branwallader.

> Another is the quote below, where the whorl is described thusly:
>
> --- On Tue, 1/11/11, Marc Aramini<marcaramini at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>> Then there's this: "I'd like to show you Green," Jahlee
>> explained to him.  "it's the whorl on which I was born
>> and on which I grew up, just as your father was born and
>> grew up on that little white one he tries to point out to
>> you sometimes." (IGJ 339)  This shows us the whorl is
>> white and visible in the sky.
>
> But can an asteroid ever be a satellite?  I don't know, then we have to go against the definition that the whorl is a hollowed out asteroid if they are actually significantly different, the kind of semantic arguments I DON'T like, (tusks and horns being another - taxonomy is blurry in fiction sometimes, but not always.)  Then we have to ask, where does the glossary of Long Sun come from?  Is it from the fallible horn or the infallible Wolfe?  ugh.

All known asteroids are satellites of the sun, but several planetary 
satellites are suspected of being captured asteroids. There are a few 
asteroids that have satellites of their own, variously likely to be 
captures of fragments.

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