Dragaera

Two temporal peculiarities (mild Orca spoiler)

David Dyer-Bennet dd-b at dd-b.net
Wed Aug 27 10:47:34 PDT 2003

David Silberstein <davids at kithrup.com> writes:

> On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Michele Riccio wrote:
> 
> >On 26 Aug 2003 at 23:23, Alexx S Kay wrote
> >
> ><snip>
> >> It's definitely an inconsistency.  In my timeline, I dealt with it as
> >> follows:
> > <snip>
> >> O, day 17
> >>   Back to Vlad (O 171-174).  [Kiera says that after leaving Stony, she
> >> "hastened back", but she must be either lying or mistaken.  After she
> >> saw Stony, there had to be time for Stony to be killed by Vlad, and
> >> for Savn to work on Loiosh "far into the night" (O 219).  Thanks to
> >> allegro at innocent.com for pointing out this discrepancy.]
> >
> >As my physiology professor used to say "define your terms".  What 
> >does Kiera mean by 'hastened'?  A race of people with a life 
> >expectancy of thousands of years might have a different perception 
> >of haste.
> 
> Bah.  I know of no definition of "hastened" which would cover a span
> of time of more than a *day*, wherein no part of the day's events are
> described.

Oh, people used to spend *months* "hastening" from one side of the
world to the other.
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