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On 11/10/2011 4:07 PM, Gerry Quinn wrote:
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normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none">And while Mamelta was a bit out
of it during her time with Silk, she was fresh from Urth, at
least in her own mind. If the Whorl had gravity much less
than Urth-standard, she’d surely have noticed.</div>
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normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none">It’s possible to argue around
these things, but surely they make an initially unlikely
hypothesis recede further in the direction of impossibility?</div>
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Actually, I would think the fact that she could stand at all after
300 years of immobility would (if anything) suggest that the gravity
on the Whorl was much lighter than Urth's. If one has decided to
argue against an explanation, a "failure-to-mention-something" will
always be close at hand. It is not the lowest level of literary
criticism, but it is below the median. It's surely the least most
boring.<br>
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