From: m.driussi@genie.geis.com
Subject: (urth) Sun's Dying <> Natural
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 98 15:37:00 GMT


[Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other works]

Reply:  Item #5531003 from URTH@LISTS.BEST.COM@INET01#

Dave,

Hello there and welcome aboard.

The Old Sun is not dying of natural causes.

I repeat, the Old Sun is =not= dying of natural causes (i.e., stellar
evolution).

Somebody put a black hole in the Old Sun at some point (for purposes
unknown, but sure and I've got a few theories) and it is now dying
from that.

This is established in the text.  And another example of the
"collapsing scale" used so often in TBOTNS.

=mantis=