(urth) Geography of the Whorl

[David Stockhoff]

I hope you don't think the differences rule out the correspondence in 
general.

Yes, I'd say the "long" part of Long Sun can be taken figuratively as 
well as literally.

On 4/23/2011 7:57 AM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
>
> From: "David Stockhoff" <dstockhoff at verizon.net>
>
>
>> The Whorl always struck me as a kind of Tower of Babel. Does that fit?
>>
>> It's a monument to human ego, a "message" to the universe about human 
>> greatness, AND a kind of human cultural zoo.
>
> There are some resemblances, but some distinct differences too.
>
> The Whorl is a momument to one man's ego; Babel was a monument to 
> human ego.
>
> Typhon separated the Whorl into cities so the inhabitants could not 
> conspire against him (or hs analogue Pas).  This resembles God's 
> splitting of the human race into multiple linguistic cultures as a 
> response to Babel.
>
> Although the asteroid is probably ellipsoidal, internally I guess it 
> could be considered a tower of sorts, if we consider it as centred on 
> the axis of the Long Sun.
>
> - Gerry Quinn
>
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