<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Jeff Wilson <jwilson@io.com><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></b></font>On 1/2/2011 8:52 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:<br>>> *From:* Jeff Wilson <<a ymailto="mailto:jwilson@io.com" href="mailto:jwilson@io.com">jwilson@io.com</a>><br>> **<br>> On 1/2/2011 5:25 PM, Jerry Friedman wrote:<br><br>[cover painting]<br><br><span>>>> > <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Book-New-Sun-Gene-Wolfe/dp/1568658079">http://www.amazon.com/Book-New-Sun-Gene-Wolfe/dp/1568658079</a></span><br>>>
>><br>>> >> > and Severian is framed by a huge full moon,<br>>> >><br>>> >> (Which is insufficiently green. And where's the red sunlight?)<br>>> ><br>>> >?? The red sunlight is rather prominent at the lower left.<br>>><br>>> That's sunlight? Maybe I have no idea what the cover is supposed to<br>>> show, beside Severian and Lune.<br>>><br>>> > If you mean<br>>> > the grazing reflection from Lune, it's accurate if you agree with my<br>>> > hypothesis that it's glassed over like the Botanic Gardens.<br>>><br>>> It certainly seems reasonable, but the glass shouldn't interfere with<br>>> the green that Severian mentions seeing, and a glassed sphere would just<br>>> have one highlight from the sun, I think.<br>><br>> Not a single glass sphere, lots of domes.<br><br>Even
more reasonable. But in any case, Lune has to look green.<br><br>> The color is accurate; the <br>> same sun shines on green Lune, green Gyoll, and the greenery in the <br>> Botanical Gardens, even while it looks red when viewed directly.<br><br>Maybe it's my partial color blindness. Just out of curiosity, what color is Lune in that picture? It looks mostly pale blue to me.<br><br>Bigger version:<br><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/1568658079/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_all">http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/1568658079/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_all</a></span><br><br>(I can see the red better there, though it's still not working for me.)<br><br>Jerry Friedman<br></div></div>
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