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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=severiansola@hotmail.com
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>Thinking about it, I think Gerry is the more right. The noose is the sun
<BR>> >rising behind the sultan's tower.<BR></DIV></DIV>
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dawn in a city of towers of various heights, with a flat desert to the
east. The sun initially lights the tops of the tallest towers, with the
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am imagining the light around the top of such a tower (the turret) as a
noose. And the hunter who casts that noose is the Sun. He is the
Hunter of the East, as is appropriate for the rising sun. Orion can be in
the east, but in other directions too. I don’t think Orion has any special
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the Stone has set the stars to flight. So what’s Orion doing in this
picture? He should be running away with the other stars, not
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<DIV><BR>> Could be, I guess. The sun doesn't seem very noose-like to me,
while lines<BR>> of stars do. I guess sun=noose seems more likely if you are
locked into Venus <BR>> being the stone which morning flings to chase away
the stars. while I still <BR>> think that sounds more like the sun.<BR></DIV>
<DIV>Could be. But then the Sun couldn’t be the Hunter. </DIV>
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<DIV><BR>> As a poet as well as astronomer, wouldn't Kayaam be more likely to
think of<BR>> Venus as drawing the stars to her? ;-
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<DIV>That’s why he was a poet – he made new metaphors instead of recycling old
ones. Something he has in common with Gene Wolfe!</DIV>
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<DIV>Gerry Quinn</DIV>
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