(urth) Green is Urth Redux

[Jeff Wilson]

On 1/12/2011 7:56 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
>
> From: "Lee Berman" <severiansola at hotmail.com>
>>> David Stockhoff: But we could just as well posit that in Severian's
>>> "parallel" universe the moon is bigger.
>>
>> Given Rudesind's words, this seems like the best interpretation of the
>> text to me, with the fewest reader
>> additions.
>
> The most probable explanation, I think, is that Wolfe has got his
> orbital mechanics wrong and assumed the Moon will come closer to Earth
> over time. (In fact it will drain energy from the rotation of the Earth
> and get farther away.)

I think this is likely as well, but it's easy to put it off on the 
misrembering Rudesind. Too bad there's no intercessor for the similar 
bad figures given for the Wall and the Ship's Sails.


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