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From: "Alice Turner" <al@interport.net> Subject: (urth) Quasar and Cloud Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 18:23:44 [Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other works] This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01BD54F6.7B720580 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable For what it's worth, I have never thought that Fortunate Cloud and = Quasar were the same ship. But I have never thought it surprising that = Jonas and Hethor know each other. Ships dock at the same ports, sailors = frequent the same taverns, and, too, they jump ship and sign onto = others. OTOH, I've only just begun to seriously entertain the thought = that Hethor may indeed be KLS---a name, I have argued for 2 years, = Chris, undoubtedly Korean. FC and Q are (or were) a different order of ship than Tzadkiel's, more = mundane, I would say, but also subject to the timewarps of space. (Or do = I mean the spacewarps of time?) Thus, though Tzadkiel's ship really is = the only one of its kind, there are or were others of a different kind. = Hey, there's the Whorl!=20 -alga- ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01BD54F6.7B720580 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1 = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D'"MSHTML 4.72.2106.6"' name=3DGENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>For what it's worth, I have never = thought that=20 Fortunate Cloud and Quasar were the same ship. But I have never thought = it=20 surprising that Jonas and Hethor know each other. Ships dock at the same = ports,=20 sailors frequent the same taverns, and, too, they jump ship and sign = onto=20 others. OTOH, I've only just begun to seriously entertain the thought = that=20 Hethor may indeed be KLS---a name, I have argued for 2 years, Chris, = undoubtedly=20 Korean.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>FC and Q are (or were) a different = order of ship=20 than Tzadkiel's, more mundane, I would say, but also subject to the = timewarps of=20 space. (Or do I mean the spacewarps of time?) Thus, though Tzadkiel's = ship=20 really is the only one of its kind, there are or were others of a = different=20 kind. Hey, there's the Whorl! </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>-alga-</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01BD54F6.7B720580-- *More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.urth.net/urth/