From: Kieran Cleary <kcleary@jb.man.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Re: Digest whorl.v012.n100
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 11:49:25 +0100 (BST)


Tim,

>the daughter who had pledged herself in secret to one of the sea gods of
>the Short Sun Whorl that would in time become our Red Sun Whorl".  What
>is he talking about?

'Short Sun Whorl' is a generic term. The particular SS Whorl mentioned
here is the one 'that would in time become our RS Whorl', i.e. Urth. 
Nothing more than that, I think.

You'll find Clute's review at

http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue197/excess.html

Kieran C.


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