Are old questions OK?

Jeff Wilson · 22 Oct 2006, 04:01 · from 2006-October.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 23:01:01 -0500
Subject: (urth) Are old questions OK?
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thalassocrat at nym.hush.com wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:18:32 +1000 Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> 
> wrote:
>>> Amazon to the rescue:
>> 	"The picture he was cleaning showed an armored figure standing in 
> 
>> a 
>> desolate landscape. It had no weapon, but held a staff bearing a 
>> strange, stiff banner. The visor of this figure's helmet was 
>> entirely of 
>> gold, without eye slits or ventilation; in its polished surface 
>> the 
>> deathly desert could be seen in reflection, and nothing more."
> 
> But also: "There's your blue Urth coming over his shoulder again, 
> fresh as the Autarch's fish."

Interesting; maybe it's a Fresnel lens dual image, or even some more 
exotic form of changing picture.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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