GRGR(16): a thing so awesome Even Dzambul could not sing it

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

--- Jeremy Osner <jeremy at xyris.com> wrote:
> Is the Kirghiz light a nuclear explosion?

I associate the Kirgiz Light with the Tunguska Explosion of 1908, even
though the Tunguska event (small comet impact with an airburst fireball
thousands of feet above the ground flattening trees in a radial pattern
for a hunnerd miles?) was an awfully long way east in Siberia. This
would have been an event awesome enough to survive in spreading
folklore and song -- might be the sort of Great Bright Hand which
might've snuffed Soddom and Gomorrah.  Does it serve here as a prelude
to the bomb in our century?  Pynchon seems to relocate the event north.
 Might an event in the East have invited the wrong associations for the
tale?  

Jeremy's query about sites of Soviet nuclear testing after the war is
interesting.  Perhaps that *will* turn out to've been in northern
Kirgiz territory... anyone know?

Mark
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