On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Mark Tiller wrote: > -----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 move to the middle of the Dragon "Slice". Ok, another problem with the "grinding slow" (full disclosure, that's from a committee of poets or the local version of the Cycle, take your pick) picture is that the apparent difference between reign A and reign B would be a few microns. So another way to envision the Cycle would be 17 House slices interleaved with blank slices. So we get the click over as in _T_ as well as the mill-of-Gods effect. Vlad is vague on this point in _T_.