(urth) Wall of Nessus

[Pedro Pereira]

There was also the idea that the Wall was an old particle accelerator, although I personaly never found any evidence for it, logical or otherwise.
 
> From: gerryq at indigo.ie
> To: urth at lists.urth.net
> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 13:36:02 +0100
> Subject: Re: (urth) Wall of Nessus
> 
> 
> From: "Roy C. Lackey" <rclackey at stic.net>
> > James Wynn quoted and wrote:
> 
> >> I believe Typhon is doing some Yoda-speak here. He is saying there are
> >> powers in the sea that NOW CONSIDER THEMSELVES RULERS and he'll sort
> >> them out tout de suite. (There's some pattern-matching here with Bill
> >> Reis in AEG.)
> >
> > Probably so. And I have little doubt that he could have dispatched them at
> > least as easily as the U.S. Navy could have dealt with the Squid God. 
> > Anyone
> > who could build the _Whorl_ and manufacture hundreds of thousands of chem
> > soldiers would have little trouble with sea monsters; and the Ascians, if
> > they were even around in Typhon's era, would have been less than fleas to
> > him.
> 
> I agree - the sea monsters may have great powers, but we clearly know that 
> Typhon was concerned with other issues. If he was beleaguered by Abaia, 
> Erebus and Co., he would hardly have devoted resources to building the 
> Whorl. And we know from his own words that the crisis he faced was the 
> rapid diminution of light and heat from the Sun.
> 
> Oddly enough, none of this stuff has been an issue for me - perhaps because 
> I don;t read carefully enough. in the first place, I totally don't remember 
> the "now" in "powers in the sea", and in the second, I never got the 
> impression that the wall was so enormous. I don't remember seeing any 
> figures, but I always imagined it as maybe ten metres thick and twenty high.
> 
> - Gerry Quinn
> 
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