House Absolute

Jeff Wilson · 01 Dec 2008, 23:23 · from 2008-December.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:23:08 -0600
Subject: (urth) House Absolute
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Matthew Groves wrote:
> Why so snarky?  I said no such thing.  I don't object to counting 
> years.  It's just that if one tries to calculate the age of Urth by the 
> decay of ruins or by geologic change, one is going to come up with 
> contradictory estimates depending upon which piece of the text one bases 
> the measurement on.

You can't have it both ways in a story that spans the timeline of ruin 
and geological change.

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

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