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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=biglar1984@gmail.com
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Dug out my long sun books last night to reread and found the quote.<BR></DIV>
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has just possessed Maytera Marble and killed Blood. She says<BR></DIV>
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response to Silks question "The Prime Calcula........His<BR></DIV>
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Wolfe always capitalizes the citadel to seperate<BR></DIV>
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from other strongholds so this Prime Calcula must be on Urth. </DIV></DIV>
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not capitalised in my edition (Epiphany of the Long Sun, combining Calde and
Exodus, First Orb edition, November 2000). Here it says: </DIV>
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prime calcula... His citadel.” Only Pas gets a capital, and – as I noted
in my previous post – that is likely because it is a new sentence (or sentence
fragment), rather than any lingering respect for Pas on Echidna’s
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capitalised, I don’t see how it could make sense for it to be on Urth,
presumably many light-years away at the least (there are certain inconsistencies
in the physics relating to the journey, but I interpret them as either errors or
things forced on Wolfe to accomodate his use of traditional SF
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