Grotestad & Grandecitta

António Pedro Marques · 08 Feb 2011, 19:04 · from 2011-February.txt.gz

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From: entonio at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?B?QW50w7NuaW8gUGVkcm8gTWFycXVlcw==?=)
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:04:06 +0000
Subject: (urth) Grotestad & Grandecitta
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Someone wrote (08-02-2011 17:50):
> The Neighbours brought inhumi to the Whorl.  We are told in Chapter 11
> of _Return to the Whorl_:
> ***********************************************
> Then, "Sometime back like you I go, mysire?"
> "Back to Viron, you mean, Vadsig?"
> "To Viron, yes, mysire. Also to Grotestad. To go to the Long Sun Whorl I
> would like. Always of it you talk, and cook, and my old master and
> mistress. In Grotestad they were born, mysire, but never it I have seen."
> I told her it was possible she would.
> "There the Vanished People went?"
> I nodded.
> "To greet us it was?"
> "You might put it so, though they were sensible enough to find out a
> good deal about us - and infect us with inhumi -"
> *************************************************

Curious... the two whorl city names we do know how to parse both mean 'Big 
City'.

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