Ansible Interview

James Wynn · 25 Jan 2009, 23:30 · from 2009-January.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:30:11 -0600
Subject: (urth) Ansible Interview
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> The real problem, even if you're right, is that your theory involves
> Wolfe making a much bigger aesthetic mistake than getting the geometry 
> wrong.
>
> "Hmmm... lessee... by default, nothing in the Whorl will cast a shadow. 
> Maybe I could use that as a subtle part of the description, to enhance the 
> atmosphere of being in a artificial world different from the earth. Nah... 
> there's a really convoluted way in which it's theoretically possible for 
> shadows to exist. I'll just write as if I'd forgotten the whole thing, and 
> let people construct the epicycles to rationalize it."

You are assuming he thought it all strange that the Whorl would cast 
shadows. If he made a rough model of his Whorl, he would have seen shadows 
and just recorded what he saw.

J

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