vanished people=Hieros

David Stockhoff · 09 Nov 2011, 18:48 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:48:05 -0500
Subject: (urth) vanished people=Hieros
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On 11/9/2011 1:36 PM, Ant?nio Pedro Marques wrote:
> David Stockhoff wrote (09-11-2011 18:32):
>> On 11/8/2011 5:36 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
>>> *From:* Marc Aramini <mailto:marcaramini at yahoo.com>
>>> **
>>> > To have it be any city other than Nessus would simply create an
>>> > insoluble puzzle ...
>>> Only if you reject the possibility that two different cities could be
>>> similar in certain respects.
>>> - Gerry Quinn
>>
>> So, two cities by a river could be made of stone with clustered rocket
>> landers as towers? That's clearly possible, but which cities would 
>> those be?
>
> Most cities are by rivers.
> Cities not made of stone would not physically endure long after 
> abandoned.
> The rocket tower is the one linking element. Acceptable, but not strong.

This reminds me of a joke: Why did the engineer read a book of fiction?

:D

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