# declassified stl eta *The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 12 Oct 1999* > 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 Oct 1999, 16:47* Wombat, > At 02:24 PM 10/12/99 -0700, Mantis wrote: >> Wombat had the subjective time for the flight of the Whorl but wanted to >> know what the objective time was. >> >> Subjective time: 332 years, exactly. > I'm sure you've said this before, but what's your cite on that? The circular written by Remora is dated "30th Nemesis 332" (III, 173). =mantis= *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. --- ### Kevin J. Maroney *13 Oct 1999, 11:06 · follows Michael Andre-Driussi* > At 04:47 PM 10/12/99 -0700, Mantis wrote: > The circular written by Remora is dated "30th Nemesis 332" (III, 173). And can we be sure that the calendar dates from the launch of the _Whorl_? Wombat, a.k.a. Kevin Maroney kmaroney at crossover.com Kitchen Staff Supervisor, New York Review of Science Fiction http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/olp/nyrsf/nyrsf.html *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---