From: Michael Straight <straight@email.unc.edu>
Subject: (whorl) Nessus when?
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 14:19:05 


I think I've made it through all the archives now, having at last finished
IGJ (and recovered from my amazement at how good it is), and I can't
believe no one has mentioned this solution of how Horn, 300-some-years
travel from the Urth of Typhon's time could return and find himself in the
much-later time of Severian.

Time dialation.   The trip took 300-some years in the Whorl's reference
frame and thousands of years from Urth's reference frame.

-Rostrum


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