(urth) So Where DID the Guard go?

[Jeffery Wilson clueland.com]

On 5/4/2014 3:34 PM, Andrew Mason wrote:
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> I'm sure that _Short Sun_ (specifically _In Green's Jungles_) does
> indeed tell us where the guard went; but I'm equally sure that this was
> not the answer Wolfe had in mind when he wrote _New Sun_; he wasn't
> planning _that_ far ahead. So we can still ask what his original
> intention was. (The presence of the citizen volunteers suggests that
> either the guard is  quite often absent, or his presence is ineffective.)

Remember the saying about 5 buildings per living inhabitant of Nessus; 
how many of those 5 building's former inhabitants are now interred 
somewhere at the necropolis? That's a lot of graveyard per guard.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >
A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab
< http://www.tamut.edu/cil >