Seal of Pas

Gerry Quinn · 28 Oct 2011, 18:20 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: gerry at bindweed.com (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:20:04 +0100
Subject: (urth) Seal of Pas
In-Reply-To: <4EAAE910.8080303 at verizon.net>
References: <SNT123-W17A419E8EF0B42F4E4843CCFD30 at phx.gbl><E88D3E82FDBA4F87AB682AD83F3534A9@Rover><CAMwO0gyMMrQFH7m_1Dt+ydbmsLJu7+S_vOS_240pqtPfOyX4Sw at mail.gmail.com><BA0299ADB6564A06AB4B9D234E47EC61@Rover>
	<4EAAE910.8080303 at verizon.net>
Message-ID: <170C255D343349B1A1411F42CA514038@Rover>



From: David Stockhoff 

> It strikes me that a large part of the number's "significance" is that 
> it is a sign of "our" era and of computer-generated IDs.

Yes, that too: or at least it symbolises the technological society of Typhon?s era, rather than the post-technological society of the Whorl in its current state.

- Gerry Quinn
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.urth.net/pipermail/urth-urth.net/attachments/20111028/4cba72f3/attachment.htm>

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net