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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=nathanctresch@gmail.com
href="mailto:nathanctresch@gmail.com">Nathan C. Tresch</A> </DIV></DIV></DIV>
<DIV>> Gerry Quinn:</DIV>
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> <SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: calibri">It can’t really be. The
Whorl is a hollowed out asteroid, and has no sails. </SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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> <SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: calibri">The Ship has symmetric decks and
sails. And the interior descriptions do not </SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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> <SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: calibri">match at all.</SPAN> </DIV>
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<DIV>> If the Whorl is The Ship in its infancy, all of the Whorl could have
been </DIV>
<DIV>> converted into one off the vast storage modules or even the interior
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<DIV>> main ship body.</DIV>
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<DIV>> > <SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: calibri">Also the Whorl’s life is
limited. After 300 years it is still functional but </SPAN></DIV>
<DIV>> > <SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: calibri">not in great condition.
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<DIV>> We don't really know the extent of the repairs made before the Whorl
left,</DIV>
<DIV>> nor do we know where it went. Maybe it left to go and
undergo a </DIV>
<DIV>> transformation into something closer to what The Ship became by the
time </DIV>
<DIV>> Severian was being transported.</DIV>
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<DIV>But the same argument could be made for any of the millions of spaceships
in the universe. There is only one Ship, but it’s rather clear that there
are numerous interstellar craft – the one Jonas crashed in, the ones Typhon’s
lieutenants fled in, the ones that were lost in time in Cyriaca’s story, the one
Barbatus and Co. flit around in...</DIV>
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<DIV>- Gerry Quinn<BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>