# Digest urth.v004.n009 *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 24 Aug 1997* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Alice Turner *24 Aug 1997, 09:55* > No. On the second day, he ambles around the North of the city, gradually > coming to realize how deformed the Americans are. The crucial thing is > that the "fear" passage cannot have been written any earlier than the > third day. This is because he speaks of the fear as coming on him the > previous day. This cannot have been on the first day--the day of his > arrival--for his narrative of that day is clearly upbeat. It may have > been on the second day, which ends with his realization that the > Americans are more deformed than he had thought. There may even be one > or more entire days missing here; there's no way to tell. But one thing > is sure: the "fear" passage _cannot_ have been written earlier than the > third day. Everything follows from this. Sgt. Rock, Can't buy that. You've been misled by the non-sequential form, which starts with evening, goes back to morning (which is upbeat, indeed, but becomes less so), then night, then afternoon---the clue is that he walks north--then early evening, then night (written the next morning). Check it out again, sir. -alga- --- ### Alice Turner *25 Aug 1997, 18:02 · follows Alice Turner* vizcacha, Algonkian, eh? That's a help. A guy has promised to sent Inuit translations (or said he'd try, which I guess isn't the same thing since that was more than a week ago). I'll do a hunt tomorrow. Thanks. -alga- ---