# Loganstone

*The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 04 Mar 2001*

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### Dan Rabin
*04 Mar 2001, 10:37*

"Loganstone" is the name of the lighter that took Magnesia (Marble) 
to the Whorl.  I got a little bothered about the name yesterday, so I 
did a Google search and came up with

<http://www.quinion.com/words/weirdwords/ww-log1.htm>
<http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/monuments.html>.

It's an old English name for a rocking stone, with Druidic/magical 
associations.  There's a famous one in Cornwall.

The name fits in with the motions attributed to landers, and also 
fits in with the provenance of the Whorl as an asteriod.
 
   -- Dan

*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.

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