# Lune, leagues and miles *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 12 Mar 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. --- ### Michael Andre-Driussi *12 Mar 2002, 00:46* Jerry Friedman quoted and queried > --- Michael Andre-Driussi wrote: >> Assuming that Lune Diameter = 2160 miles, and Orbit = 150,000 miles . . >> . > ... > > Where did you get 150,000 miles? ". . . the Forests of Lune, fifty thousand leagues away" (III, ch. 32, para. 4). "LEAGUE, a unit of distance equal to three miles" (AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY). =mantis= SIRIUS FICTION booklets on Gene Wolfe, John Crowley 43 Lexicons left until OP! http://www.siriusfiction.com/ ---