City On Green

Jeff Wilson · 01 Jan 2011, 07:46 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2011 01:46:00 -0600
Subject: (urth) City On Green
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On 1/1/2011 1:13 AM, Lee Berman wrote:
> If it has closed roads
> it means they once were open. If it has a closed spaceport it means there was once an open space
> port.

Since Nessus moves upriver over time, it cannot be said for certain that 
the roads and the port were part of the city when they were open in the 
same way they are in Severian's time.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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