vanished people=Hieros

David Stockhoff · 11 Nov 2011, 00:02 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:02:50 -0500
Subject: (urth) vanished people=Hieros
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On 11/10/2011 5:24 PM, James Wynn wrote:
> On 11/10/2011 4:07 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
>> And while Mamelta was a bit out of it during her time with Silk, she 
>> was fresh from Urth, at least in her own mind. If the Whorl had 
>> gravity much less than Urth-standard, she?d surely have noticed.
>> It?s possible to argue around these things, but surely they make an 
>> initially unlikely hypothesis recede further in the direction of 
>> impossibility?
>
> Actually, I would think the fact that she could stand at all after 300 
> years of immobility would (if anything) suggest that the gravity on 
> the Whorl was much lighter than Urth's. If one has decided to argue 
> against an explanation, a "failure-to-mention-something" will always 
> be close at hand. It is not the lowest level of literary criticism, 
> but it is below the median. It's surely the least most boring.


Did Mamelta know where she was? I don't recall. At any rate, low gravity 
in space hardly merits a remark from a member of a spacefaring species. 
It's to be expected, and pretty much demonstrated by the existence of 
Fliers and pterotroopers.

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