-----Original Message----- From: Philip Hart [mailto:philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU] >So in _Taltos_, looking at what I envision as a big pie chart, do Vlad et al. see the Phoenix slice centered vertically? >Or does the Cycle grind slowly and exceedingly small, in which case they have some (if nothing else extremely >economically useful) information - when the Dragons will take power. IIRC, in Taltos they talk about how nice it would be to be in front of the Cycle when it turned. I took this to imply it was in the middle of the Phoenix "slice" and would moe to the middle of the Dragon "Slice". Mark