From: Brooklyn
Category: Amis
Date: 8/10/99
Time: 11:04:31 AM
Remote Name: 207.238.28.10
FROM LF, CHAPTER 17, page 332.
Rhythmically flicking the nails of her thumb and forefinger, Nicola read about the low sun, and the latest explanations. The change of angle was apparently caused by an unprecedented combination of three familiar effects: perihelion (when the earth is at its shortest distance from the sun), perigee (when the moon is at its shortest distance from the earth) and syzygy (when the earth, sun, and moon are anyway most closely aligned). The confluence made gravity put on weight, slowing the planet's spin and also slowing time, so that earth days and nights were now fractionally but measurable longer. 'Yea cheers,' murmured Nicola, who had only twenty days and nights on earth to go. She tossed Time over her shoulder and arrived at her own explanation. Love made the world go round. And the world was slowing up. The world wasn't going round.
Still, the earth's new tilt meant that London would get the full eclipse. London would witness 'totality' on November 5...
[There are a few area's where MA's prescience failed him. Most notably regarding Bar Time. He figured it'd be 24/7 by 1999. Also with his monetary forecasting (though this is sketchy recollection), at some point our narrator says "...it wasn't worth 1 million dollars. It wasn't even worth 1 million pounds."