(urth) Ansible Interview

[James Wynn]

> The real problem, even if you're right, is that your theory involves
> Wolfe making a much bigger aesthetic mistake than getting the geometry 
> wrong.
>
> "Hmmm... lessee... by default, nothing in the Whorl will cast a shadow. 
> Maybe I could use that as a subtle part of the description, to enhance the 
> atmosphere of being in a artificial world different from the earth. Nah... 
> there's a really convoluted way in which it's theoretically possible for 
> shadows to exist. I'll just write as if I'd forgotten the whole thing, and 
> let people construct the epicycles to rationalize it."

You are assuming he thought it all strange that the Whorl would cast 
shadows. If he made a rough model of his Whorl, he would have seen shadows 
and just recorded what he saw.

J