whorl in orbit

Don Doggett · 19 Nov 2002, 07:24 · from urth-v0211.mbox · original

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From: "Don Doggett" <harlekin at earthlink.net>
Subject: (urth) whorl in orbit
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 23:24:01 -0800
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Against the "Whorl has been in orbit for thirty years" possibly in the text
and possibly said by Wolfe in an interview I lay down my "longfather,
culture hero of Ushas who left for the stars" entry in Lexicon Urthus
p.184 - 185.  And I would argue most vehemently that nothing is
straightforward enough in these texts to draw any definitive conclusions.
Heck, for all I know, this is some elaborate joke by Wolfe, and the real
narrator of the whole 12 book series is L. Ron Hubbard.

Don

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