Wall of Nessus

James Wynn · 14 Jun 2010, 17:29 · from 2010-June.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:29:55 -0500
Subject: (urth) Wall of Nessus
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On 6/14/2010 10:16 AM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
> a 1-mile Wall would be visible for 97.8 statute miles.  Perhaps league 
> has an ambiguous meaning similar to chiliad; if young Severian had 
> been up late the night before units class, perhaps he misheard a 
> league as three furlongs instead of three miles?  A Wall 3/8 mile tall 
> would be visible for 59.9 statute miles...still too long to walk in a 
> day.

I presumed that Wolfe would use the "Roman" league which is 2.22 km or 
1.4 miles. It's still to tall for "several leagues".

J.

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