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David Langford · 07 Feb 2000, 10:08 · from whorl-v0010.mbox · original

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From: ansible at cix.co.uk (David Langford)
Subject: (whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v010.n078
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 10:08 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
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Alga bloomed:

[quoting me]

> > When members of this very list posed a number of questions to Wolfe=20
> > back in 1997, Q27 and Wolfe's answer went as follows:
> >=20
> >  Is Pike's ghost really Quetzal?
> >  No.
>=20
>  Oh, who cares what he says! I'm sticking to my guns.

Right on! What does he know? Besides, in an on-line chat elsewhere, Wolfe=20
also remarked that Quetzal was not the only one of his kind on the Whorl.=20
So maybe the answer would have been different if we'd put the question in=20
the form, "Was 'Pike's ghost' a member of Quetzal's species?" Ah, the joys=20
of hindsight.

Dave

David Langford
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