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Digest whorl.v010.n122
↰ answers Michael Andre-Driussi
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mantis wrote:
In OBW, the Rajan goes over some of the same stuff we've gone over with regard to how Quetzal got onto the Whorl, that is, "in what year" and "by what method."
The Rajan ends by figuring that the Whorl must have been just hanging around in the system for 100 years (detail also matches Pas's planned timeframe, such as we know). This means that the flight-time was only around 200 years.
The Rajan also mentions that the length of year varies across different cities' calendars, making his (and mantis's) calculations slightly harder.
David Duffy.
"reserved when alive...delicious dead."
*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.