(urth) "been teaching literature for over 35 years"

[Jerry Friedman]

From: Jeffery Wilson jwilson at clueland.com
...

>>>>   I think that a black hole, even as currently understood, would cool the
>>>>   sun if it were significantly cooler than the temperature of the interior
>>>>   of the sun.  You can have some fun at
>>> <http://xaonon.dyndns.org/hawking/>.
>>>
>>> It's really not fair to hold Wolfe to the standards of another 3-4 decades
>>> of theoretical physics.
>>
>> That's why I said "even as currently understood".  I was just thinking about
>> what might happen with current physics, as I take it Gerry was too, not holding
>> Wolfe to anything.
>>
>>> We no longer have the expectation of transcending
>>> space and dimension as when the Book was being written.
>>
>> I don't remember that we did then--did we?
>
>A popular treatment in print was THE IRON SUN: ACROSS THE UNIVERSE WITH 
>BLACK HOLES    (ISBN 0525134905, 9780525134909). Disney did a film called 
>THE BLACK HOLE, and Blue Oyster Cult had
>  some airplay with "Heavy Metal, Black and Silver".

Oh, okay.  I think that at the time, the theory that black holes might lead to other
universes (or other parts of this one), where they might be white holes, was
still current.  I think the theory of black hole radiation, in which black holes and
white holes are the same thing, was also available (developed by Bekenstein
in 1972 and Hawking in 1974).
 
>>>>   Wait, I thought the black beans grew into the sea monsters, which is why
>>>>   the woman had to throw them into the sea (instead of just dropping them on
>>>>   the ground) to make them effective.  Robert Borski speculated along these
>>>>   lines.
>>>>
>>>>  http://books.google.com/books?id=HykyT4UQ9JMC&pg=PA93
>>>>
>>>>   Anyway, it would make literary sense if whoever or whatever made the sun
>>>>   cool also stopped plate tectonics (if it's stopped), and if the process
>>>>   that fixed one also fixed the other.
>>>
>>> I think it's a stretch when she throws them on the *sun*'s grave.
>>
>> I'm not following.  What's a stretch?  What's the sun's grave?
>
>
>I'm thinking it's figurative reference like, "I feel like someone is 
>walking on my grave."

Are you trying to frustrate me, or did I miss a post about "the sun's grave"?  What's
a figurative reference like that line?
 
Jerry Friedman