Base 9 on the Whorl?

Kevin J. Maroney · 15 May 2002, 04:04 · from urth-v0205.mbox · original

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From: "Kevin J. Maroney" <kjm at panix.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Base 9 on the Whorl?
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 00:04:39 -0400
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At 10:22 AM 5/14/02, Michael Straight wrote:
>I think this has been pretty well refuted, but oh, how I wish it were
>true.  I really believed it for a minute.  It seemed like such a Wolfean
>idea, him being an engineer and all, and the idea of it being subtly woven
>into all the books as an easter egg is fabulous, and it seems like the
>sort of thing Pas would do.

Wolfe is enough of an engineer that he dislikes hugely impractical ideas.=20
Pas might want to impose base 9 on the inhabitants of the Whorl, but Gene=20
Wolfe wouldn't let him. :-)
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Kevin J.  Maroney | kjm at panix.com | Games are my entire waking life

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