(urth) So Where DID the Guard go?

[David Stockhoff]

On 5/4/2014 7:51 PM, Jeffery Wilson clueland.com wrote:
> On 5/4/2014 3:34 PM, Andrew Mason wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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.
>

That too.