Marble on Urth

David Stockhoff · 02 Jun 2011, 02:57 · from 2011-June.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:57:26 -0400
Subject: (urth) Marble on Urth
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On 6/1/2011 5:56 PM, James Wynn wrote:
>> Roy C. Lackey wrote:
>> She remembered standing in a sun-drenched field in a line of servants as
>> they and chem soldiers waited for the transport ship that would take them up
>> to the_Whorl_:
>> ----------------
>>      "Enormous darkness high overhead, blotting the sun-drenched field,
> The above is surely a description of a scene on the Whorl.
>
>> the straggling line of servants in which she had stood, and the soldiers'
>> precise column. She had seen it descend from the sky, at first a fleck of
>> black that had seemed no bigger than a flake of soot; [...](CALDE, 285)
>
> What is "coming down" here is the line of servants and soldiers.
> Because they are on the Whorl, she can see the very long line descend
> from the skylands.

This doesn't seem possible. What would such a large airship be doing 
inside the Whorl? And surely it is a ship that appeared tiny at first.


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