Free Live Free, the unnamed city The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 02 Dec 2002 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/3635 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 — 02 Dec 2002, 15:30 > Roy wrote: > But I think you're looking in the > wrong place for the city. It's not in the Midwest, if it exists at all; it's > on the East Coast. I have only the Tor paperback, so I don't know the HC > page number, but on the second page of chapter 59 Free looks out the window > of the cockpit and sees the "tossing waters of the Atlantic". Good catch! That does narrow things down quite a bit. > The _High Country_ doesn't stray from protected US airspace--that's why it > was built. It seems to circle, more or less; at least it doesn't seem to > ever be out of a short-range flight of the shuttle B-17, and the B-17 takes > off and lands from the old military base near the modern airport. I agree, but rather than "circle" I think it more kind of hovers. (For the time travel from High Country 1942 to High Country 1952, I think it really has to be as "in place" as a building on the ground. It is in a "geo-synchronous orbit" while still being within the atmosphere.) There is that talk of the atmospheric winds blowing from west to east, and gliding. > And the > Flying Carpet is near the airport. The flask and the matches point to New > York City. I don't think that is the city, but the city is probably close to > NYC. The television commentator said it was a major US city. It's definitely > not Philadelphia. It's far enough north to get cold and have snow. If the > shuttle used in 1942 operated under the same conditions as in 1982-3 (never > too far from _High Country_), then that plane landed at Langley Field, > Virginia. The high and mighty aboard the _High Country_ probably wanted to > stay close to the center of government power in Washington DC. The city, if > it exists, should be between there and NYC, as I see it. That narrows it down dramatically! There are not that many major cities between DC and NYC, and tending toward the coast: Baltimore, Wilmington (major?), Philadelphia, Atlantic City (major?), and Trenton (major?). =mantis= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jerry Friedman — 02 Dec 2002, 22:54 follows, by subject match Michael Andre-Driussi > --- Michael Andre-Driussi wrote: > Roy wrote: ... > > And the > > Flying Carpet is near the airport. The flask and the matches point to > > New > > York City. I don't think that is the city, but the city is probably > > close to > > NYC. The television commentator said it was a major US city. It's > > definitely > > not Philadelphia. It's far enough north to get cold and have snow. If > > the > > shuttle used in 1942 operated under the same conditions as in 1982-3 > > (never > > too far from _High Country_), then that plane landed at Langley Field, > > Virginia. The high and mighty aboard the _High Country_ probably wanted > > to > > stay close to the center of government power in Washington DC. The > > city, if > > it exists, should be between there and NYC, as I see it. > That narrows it down dramatically! There are not that many major cities > between DC and NYC, and tending toward the coast: Baltimore, Wilmington > (major?), Philadelphia, Atlantic City (major?), and Trenton (major?). I think Newark is a possibility too. And why not a little bit north/east of New York? Say New Haven, or more likely Providence, home of Lovecraft. For some reason I always suspected it was B'more, but that may be only a reflection of my ignorance. Jerry Friedman ------------------------------------------------------------------------------