(urth) do the Hierogrammates *care* about the megatherians?

[David Stockhoff]

Yes, yes, and yes.

On 5/21/2011 8:29 AM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
> On 5/20/2011 8:46 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
>> I'm not sure there's much to read into this though. At the end of the
>> day Wolfe wanted a dramatic and catastrophic effect. Current physics
>> does not really justify it - for me the best solution is some unknown
>> technology related to the transport of the White Fountain, which results
>> in the emission of strong gravitational waves as it deccelerates near
>> the end of its journey. But even these have problems because of poor
>> coupling - by which I mean that the frequency that rings bells is too
>> high to be easily absorbed by oceans.
>
>     I am working from what seems to be the scenario best supported by 
> the textev and criticism that says the general scheme of the BOTNS is 
> a combination of older SF tropes "updated" by the physics and popular 
> science of the late 1970s then tarted up in fantastic drag. That 
> being, one or more black holes in the sun, siphoning off matter and 
> energy through Einstein-Rosen bridge wormholes to Abaddon, while the 
> White Fountain is similarly a white hole delivering matter and energy 
> siphoned from Yesod via an artificial (as all massive objects in Yesod 
> are) black hole.
>     This comes in at an angle that shakes up Urth and creates a Flood 
> because it inherits that from _WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE_ and "Born of the 
> Sun" and other world-shaking astro-apocalyptic SF, as well as 
> fulfilling the the mythic deluge parallels, and it advances the agenda 
> of the Yesodis, who would not bother with such an undertaking simply 
> to prolong the state of affairs on Urth, but instead required a new 
> start for human civilization in order to have an additional chance of 
> re-evolving the vanished Hieros that begat them.
>     And it turns out that the bells are jingling because they are sewn 
> to a curtain that is being disturbed by Severian and the assassin; 
> they are being rung by the White Fountain, but by the figurative 
> instrument of its personification rather than its gravity ripples.
>


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