M & D Discussion post of the day

[Mark Kohut]

p. 75 ...."the most advanc'd Astronomical Device in Creation"....

'And yet, d'ye not feel sometimes that everything since the Fight as
sea has been---not a Dream, yet..."

"Aye. As if we're lodgers inside someone ease's Fate, whilst belonging
quite someplace else...?"

"Nothing's as immediate as it was....We might have died then, after
all, and gone on as Ghosts. Haunting this place, waiting to
materialize,---perhaps just at the moment of the Transit, the moment
the Planet herself becomes Solid..."

Prefatory question: what does 'the moment the Planet becomes solid' mean?
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