(urth) Green is Urth Redux

[Marc Aramini]

yes, but the Lune of Severian's time is bigger, closer, and has an atmosphere.  Is it still the moon?

--- On Tue, 1/11/11, Gerry Quinn <gerryq at indigo.ie> wrote:

> From: Gerry Quinn <gerryq at indigo.ie>
> Subject: Re: (urth) Green is Urth Redux
> To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth at lists.urth.net>
> Date: Tuesday, January 11, 2011, 11:02 AM
> 
> From: "Marc Aramini" <marcaramini at yahoo.com>
> > It matters if the Whorl is a hollowed out lune.
> 
> But it can't be.  Lune is orbiting Urth in Severian's
> time, and is green in colour.  The Whorl was launched
> long before that time, when Scylla was alive - and the Whorl
> has no surface vegetation.  (Also, of course, the Whorl
> appears to be a lot smaller, at least in diameter; the
> distance from the interior surface to the Long Sun does not
> seem to be very great, and it takes only three days to walk
> through tunnels from the interior surface to the outside.)
> 
> - Gerry Quinn
> 
> 
> > --- On Tue, 1/11/11, Gerry Quinn <gerryq at indigo.ie>
> wrote:
> > > As for the orbit of the Whorl, I don't think we
> know much
> > > about the details of its orbit (or indeed the
> orbital
> > > details of Green and Blue). Perhaps it only
> comes
> > > close to Blue sometimes. I don't know that it
> > > matters,
> 
> 
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