Dorcas (was: The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned by Rudesind)

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 09 Jul 2010, 18:35 · from 2010-July.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 11:35:52 -0700
Subject: (urth) Dorcas (was: The mystery of the image of an astronaut
	cleaned by Rudesind)
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On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Tony Ellis <tonyellis69 at btopenworld.com> wrote:

> Where are you getting this from? The Dorcas-is-Sev's-grandmother
> puzzle was understood by some of us as soon as we read Citadel of the
> Autarch back in the 1980s.

Yep. In fact, I didn't even realize it was considered a "puzzle."

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes

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