Wall of Nessus

James Wynn · 11 Jun 2010, 20:27 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:27:38 -0500
Subject: (urth) Wall of Nessus
In-Reply-To: <008601cb099d$ab0f1940$43cf4a0c@rclackey>
References: <000901cb080c$a24bd6a0$3dd14a0c@rclackey>	<4C113F93.6080403 at gmail.com><003601cb0922$0df9bdc0$55cd4a0c@rclackey>	<4C11CC0A.20701 at io.com>
	<008601cb099d$ab0f1940$43cf4a0c@rclackey>
Message-ID: <4C129C3A.1010400 at gmail.com>


>> >  The flood wall theory does not explain the soldiers (either their
>> >  presence or their location) in Severian's day.
>>      
> Right. Not to mention that it failed to stop the flood.<g>  And what mighty
> ruler in the distant past knew of and desired to attempt to thwart a massive
> future flood?
>    
Didn't Abaia's followers know of it? Wasn't that an important key in 
their loyalty?

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net