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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I shouldn't fret too much about it - I'm sure
most authors, however much being questioned by enthusiasts for their
works annoys them, would be more annoyed still if it all went away
;-)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Have you considered the possibility that "Urth is
Green" has a metaphorical meaning? That Green is what Earth/Urth can
become if we lose our humanity? It would seem to fit reasonably well with
the themes Wolfe is exploring in the Short Sun trilogy.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>- Gerry Quinn</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=marcaramini@yahoo.com href="mailto:marcaramini@yahoo.com">Marc
Aramini</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=urth@lists.urth.net
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, December 30, 2010 4:26
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: (urth) Losing
Imitation</DIV>
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<DIV>Gerry, I have to comment on this whole mess. i was in contact
with Wolfe very frequently at about that time when the light started to
turn on for Short Sun for me in 2002, and I sent him my ideas about
trees hybridizing and Horn in Babbie but I said I couldn't find a way
for the transport across space to zero in on Blue at that different
time. He sent me a letter written on a manuscript page from IGJ,
but I still didn't see anything there. So I sent him a Christmas
card with a long haired man with a staff, and I drew a little face on
the staff, and inside was a christmas tree, and I put scary teeth in the
tree, and big eyes, and I asked if the astral transport through the
distance of space that the ship in UotNS went through allowed blue to be
Urth, and he sent his own Christmas card, and on the back, it said, no,
no, no Green is urth. </DIV>
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<DIV>And that's where I become the bad guy, because I first posted that
Gene had told me something, Nick Gevers frantically convinced me to
share it with him, he confronted Gene in disbelief, Gene told Nick he
was joking because Nick's attitude to me when he heard it was "he's
pulling your leg." Gene never told me he was joking, he just told
me he should have learned to keep his mouth shut by now. But my
problem, that they were planning on going to green, and wound up on Urth
which I thought should be Blue, was solved by these words, and there is
a mechanism for that mistaken transport in the text which was not there
for Blue=Urth.<BR></DIV>
<DIV>Whether the discussion ever discovers what Blue or Green is, or
whether they are connected, I believe what Gene told me, and I am very
sorry that my inquiries led to him being so harassed. </DIV>
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<DIV>In eschatology and genesis it states anything can emerge from the
black hole at the center of the sun.</DIV>
<DIV><BR>--- On <B>Wed, 12/29/10, Gerry Quinn
<I><gerryq@indigo.ie></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV class=plainMail><BR>He also said Urth = Green, and look at the
trouble THAT'S caused!<BR><BR>As you say, he made some comment to that
effect. But the book indicates otherwise, so I tend to believe
he misspoke, though I guess theories about two groups of abos are
tenable if one has some reason for believing that.<BR><BR>- Gerry
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