Merryn and Triskele

Roy C. Lackey · 06 Apr 2006, 07:52 · from 2006-April.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 02:52:44 -0500
Subject: (urth) Merryn and Triskele
Message-ID: <007901c6594f$1a2d4260$1a3ec6d8 at rclackey.stic.net>

Andrew quoted and wrote:
>>Is it clear that more than a week passes _for Sev_? I ask because
>>we know that at least some of the Narrator's astral travels are
>>also
>>travels in time...
>
>Do we know that? Not denying it, but I don't recall anything which
>suggests time travelling.

Excuse me, but these speculations on the relativistic effects of
acceleration on the _Whorl_ have nothing to do with the astral travels Dan'l
mentioned. Silkhorn did his traveling while on Blue. How long it took the
ship to get from Urth to Blue, and how much time has passed on Urth since it
voyaged, is another subject.

I agree with Andrew in that I see no evidence in the text to suggest that
astral travel also involves time travel.

-Roy

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