(urth) Ansible Interview

Jeff Wilson jwilson at io.com
Wed Jan 28 07:46:43 PST 2009


James Wynn wrote:
> It never occurred to me to read this as a river valley, probably because 
> it would make no sense that way. Any depression near a steep precipice 
> would look like a valley from the other side of Whorl. I have always 
> understood "run parallel" to mean "on a plane that is in congruence with 
> the line Long Sun" such that it was perpendicular to the light coming 
> from the Long Sun...which is the only way there could be shadows.

Planes and lines can't be congruent, by the definition of congruence.

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