# fusion and english *The Whorl list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 01 Nov 1998* > 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. --- ### Greg Neyman *01 Nov 1998, 21:14* Hey everyone ... Prion- how the heck can a chem get all its hydrogen needs from AIR? ... it can't be more than a few tenths of a percent in the air (to maintain the ecosphere ... or ecocylinder, as it were, the air composition couldn't deviate too significantly from earth's) ... and it looks like this English problem has been put pretty much to rest. thanks for all your input, you guys (man I hate to be cowed ... ) last call ... any ideas on how the whorl powers itself? A New Question: In Calde, Quetzal mentions that he's done his all he could to ensure that theophanies stop occurring in Viron ... I never really understood why ... does it get explained elsewhere in an oblique manner ... or not at all? Later ... /\/\ Greg Neyman Greg.Neyman at gte.net ___/____\___ http://www.trailerpark.com/siesta/thehat/ |HE HA| *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. --- ### Michael Straight *02 Nov 1998, 08:49 · follows Greg Neyman* > On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Greg Neyman wrote: > Hey everyone ... > Prion- how the heck can a chem get all its hydrogen needs from AIR? ... > it can't be more than a few tenths of a percent in the air (to maintain the > ecosphere ... or ecocylinder, as it were, the air composition couldn't > deviate too significantly from earth's) ... The classic SF trope is getting hydrogen from electrolysis of water, so I imagine Prion is refering to water vapor in the air. "Humid weather today. Yum!" -- Hammerstone -Rostrum *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. --- ### Alex David Groce *02 Nov 1998, 11:55 · follows Michael Straight* > Greg Neyman wrote: > A New Question: In Calde, Quetzal mentions that he's done his all he could > to ensure that theophanies stop occurring in Viron ... I never really > understood why ... does it get explained elsewhere in an oblique manner ... > or not at all? For my money, not at all, and Quetzal's motivations as the (maybe) benevolent vampire will presumably be explained in Short Sun... Didn't Wolfe say as much in the Q&A session some time ago? ``` "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free." - John 8:32 -- Alex David Groce (adgroce at eos.ncsu.edu) Senior (Computer Science/Multidisciplinary Studies in Technology & Fiction) '98-99 NCSU AITP Student Chapter President 608 Charleston Road, Apt. 1E (919)-233-7366 http://www4.ncsu.edu/~adgroce *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ``` ---