# light chiliad, my coin *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 10 Aug 2000* > 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 *10 Aug 2000, 13:39* > Nutria wrote: > Fun discussion. Hmmm. The conversations in IGJ hint that at least 1000 > years have passed since the asteroid left Urth system. Is "light chiliad" > from somewhere in the narratives, or just your phrase? My guess would be > that a millennium is the least time it could be; perhaps quite a bit longer. The term "light chiliad" is my own invention. =mantis= *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---