# past *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 27 Feb 2002* > 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. --- ### maa32 *27 Feb 2002, 05:29* Jerry - also, right around this time in Return to the Whorl Hoof talks about how the voice of his father fades out like it was spoken "long ago" in a place "far away" during the transition. In other words, the transition does invoke some sense of the past, not the present, and I think "ancient" and "old" reinforces this. Marc ---