From: "Don Doggett" 
Subject: Re: (urth) Time must have a stop
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 19:44:34 -0800


Jerry Friedman wrote:

> If we had some independent evidence that the _Whorl_ did have FTL,
> and (better) that Wolfe's imagined FTL involved time stopping at some
> point, then your suggestion would tempt me.  But as it is, the
> possibility that the Outsider is directly responsible for everything
> Silk experiences seems much easier to believe.

Fair enough.  The thing I think that keeps me drawn to my theory is the fact
that Marble's internal clock is off by three thousand years (well 2,700)
soon after Silk's enlightenment. I know that's circumstantial evidence and
everything is breaking on the Whorl, but it seems compelling to me.

Don



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