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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=marcaramini@yahoo.com
href="mailto:marcaramini@yahoo.com">Marc Aramini</A> </DIV>
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"This was a tower indeed, its nose high as the tops of the tallest trees
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slightly canted tower gleaming dully in the reddish ligh of the stifling
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taken. How we shouted in our delight, thinking it would save
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on Green to save them, its a ship like the Matachin tower]</DIV></DIV>
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*does* sound like a ship, even though a metal structure with ribs and sideplates
is hardly definitive of one. However, it may very well have been one of
the Neighbours’ old spacecraft.</DIV>
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</DIV>The two cities are compared several times. The clearing of the sewer
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</DIV>the purging of a watery cleansing to clear out the corpses.</DIV>
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<DIV>I would understand it as just that – a comparison. [I understand
‘Green is Urth’ the same way, unless Wolfe really was making a terrible
electrical pun, something of which he is perfectly capable!]</DIV>
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<DIV>- Gerry Quinn</DIV>
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