Hooray for Ranjit! and White Fountain

Alice Turner · 06 Apr 1999, 19:23 · from urth-v0025.mbox · original

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From: "Alice Turner" <akt at ibm.net>
Subject: (urth) Hooray for Ranjit! and White Fountain
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 19:23:16
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Thank you, Ranjit. It's a wonderful list, and without you we wouldn't have
it.

Um, with regard to the New Sun/White Fountain, I bow to you boys in your
physics calculations, but I do want to remind you that this was conceived by
and at the sexual congress of Apheta and Sev. Wolfe gives us plenty of
leeway in the time situation with his explanations that the ship winks in
and out of time, and can go backwards--he gives us the situation of
Burgundofara, as well as the hierodules. It is possible that this is
something he thought up after the fact to make sense of prior loose ends,
but, nevertheless, it's done well enough to impress me thoroughly.

-alga

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