# The pits *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 23 Jan 2001* > 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. --- ### akt *23 Jan 2001, 17:55* I can't say that I've thought this through, but it's interesting that Horn says over and over again that being in the pit from which he was rescued by Krait was the most traumatizing even of his life (he never goes into detail), while the Shadow Children pit, which we do see in detail, is pretty traumatizing for the reader. -alga --- ### Michael Straight *24 Jan 2001, 08:21 · follows akt* > On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 akt at attglobal.net wrote: > I can't say that I've thought this through, but it's interesting that Horn > says over and over again that being in the pit from which he was rescued by > Krait was the most traumatizing even of his life (he never goes into > detail) Horn telling us that he licked the dew from every inch of the ground and as high on the walls as he could reach was more detail than *I* needed to hear. -Rostrum ---