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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. The Ship has symmetric decks and sails. And the interior descriptions do not match at all.</span> <div><br>
</div><div>If the Whorl is The Ship in its infancy, all of the Whorl could have been converted into one off the vast storage modules or even the interior of the main ship body.</div><div><br></div><div>>
<span style="font-family:Calibri">Also the Whorl’s life is limited. After 300 years it is still functional but not in great condition. </span> </div><div><br></div><div>We don't really know the extent of the repairs made before the Whorl left, nor do we know where it went. Maybe it left to go and undergo a transformation into something closer to what The Ship became by the time Severian was being transported.</div>
<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Gerry Quinn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gerry@bindweed.com">gerry@bindweed.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="nathanctresch@gmail.com" href="mailto:nathanctresch@gmail.com" target="_blank">Nathan C. Tresch</a> </div></div></div>
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<div>> I posted this question to this site, and I was wondering if anyone
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<div>> </div>>Is the Whorl also the Universal Transport in the Solar Cycle
by Gene Wolfe?<br>> <a href="http://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/14856/5828?sem=2" target="_blank">http://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/14856/5828?sem=2</a>
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