human
While you were having that experience I was in touch with young Ernol again. The boy has recovered and is still in jail, but they let him have his books now. And I've been helping him study geography.
gpt
Well?
human
Very simple. Capellete is a double world!
gpt
Double!
human
Yes! There are two globes, instead of one. They're twins, and Siamese twins at that!
gpt
Just imagine the earth and Venus of the same size, and so near to one another that their combined gravity has brought them together! That's Capellette! And the contact is the place where they touch!
human
But astronomically they are one. They revolve around Capella together; the rotate about a common center daily, just as the earth rotates on its axis. This common center is, of course, in the contact.
gpt
Are both globes inhabited?