# Explication of a few small points

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 30 Mar 1998*

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### David_Lebling
*30 Mar 1998, 09:21*

A couple of quick notes:

mantis,

The "teratoid sign" in TBOTNS is our radiation warning symbol.

Damien Broderick,

Aunt Bella's vision is of a downdown street at night in our own time.
The "thousand carriage lamps" are of course auto headlamps.

This is an excellent essay, thought-provoking and complete. Didn't
someone report (somewhere in the archives) that Wolfe has said that no
one was murdered by Alden Weer in _Peace_?  Of course, this could be a
Clintonian evasion. (Weer didn't murder anyone, but through negligence,
or misadventure, or...)

     --viz
     (david_lebling at avid.com)

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