<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Gerry, I am only going to include the parts of the quote I find especially interesting. Yes, it is far away, But is that distance in time? Why is this whorl called ancient, and this city old? Sure it is far away, but I think that is not necessarily evidence that he can really see it in anything but his mind, but yes, you are right, I can't find a mechanism that satisfactorily explains why they would arrive at that particular time. I don't think the neighbors possess horn at all. I think they hybridize with him to make Neighbor Horn.<BR><BR>--- On <B>Thu, 12/23/10, Gerry Quinn <I><gerryq@indigo.ie></I></B> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV>"Soon it will be evening," he said. "If we still haven't gone, we'll go up onto the roof of this house. Standing on the tiles I will point and you will peer until at last you see a certain dim red star. It's a long, long way from here. </DIV>
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<DIV>"There is a whorl circling that star, AN ANCIENT WHORL. On that whorl, Juganu, there is an OLD CITY YOU HAVE SEEN, and through it a river. Its waters are turbid and foul, and seem scarcely to move. You know that river; YOU HAVE SAILED ON IT. </SPAN></FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial>*********************************</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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