Brother & Sister (Geographically speaking)

Peter Westlake · 24 Aug 2000, 17:19 · from whorl-v0011.mbox · original

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From: Peter Westlake <peter at harlequin.co.uk>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Re: Brother & Sister (Geographically speaking)
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 18:19:08 +0100
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At 11:46 2000-08-24 -0500, Robert Borski wrote:
>Sbearo having written:
>
><I see what you mean about Bricco, but Brother and Sister live on an
>entirely different continent to Fava. She is finding children (different
>ones each time, by the sound of it) between Incanto's
>farm and Soldo.>
>
>I don't believe this is right. GREEN begins almost immediately (or very
>shortly) after the Brother and Sister encounter, and on the first page of
>his new narration Horn writes about the river that flows through Blanko
>thusly: "I do not think this is the same river we had in the south. This o=
ne
>flows fast but silently." He then talks (again) about the eight-legged
>crocodiles that infest the Nadi.

Ah, you're right. I had mentally transferred them to the river
that runs through Pajarocu, probably because their life resembles
that of the people of Shadelow more than it does the comparatively
civilised (parts of) Main. Thanks for setting me straight. It was
just for occasions like this that I chose my nickname!

"Sbearo" ... a nice coining, thank you :-)

And Google doesn't have any matches for it at all, whereas it has
dozens of spurious Sun Bears, Sloth Bears (okay, not that spurious
in this case), Sitting Bears, Standing Bears, and even a site
selling llamas.

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