From: "Kevin J. Maroney" <kmaroney@ungames.com>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Nessus when?
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 16:15:34 

At 02:19 PM 1/31/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Time dialation.   The trip took 300-some years in the Whorl's reference
>frame and thousands of years from Urth's reference frame.

I think Michael Andre-Driussi has made a good argument for the time of
Typhon being only about 1000 years before the time of Severian. But it's
clear that there is some time dilation going on to bridge the remaining
700-year gap. 

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