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Alice Turner · 16 Mar 1997, 20:36 · from whorl-v0004.mbox · original

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From: "Alice Turner" <al at interport.net>
Subject: (whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v001.n062
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 20:36:54
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[Posted from Whorl, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun]




> I was under the impression that Nessus was below the equator, and that
> one had to travel north to reach the hot jungles at "the waist of the
> Urth". Urth's magnetic fields may have flipped several times, but I
> don't think that civilization would globally agree to swap the
> designations "north" and "south" at those times

Two words for you, mort: "plate tectonics" <g>. Remember Gondwanaland (not
literally, of course)? Continents migrate.


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