[Discussion of the Great Sea possibly being the cause of the Maelstrom snipped. For the record, I've long thought that it was.] > Well, the Lesser Sea *doesn't* just sit there. It flows and ebbs and > glows different colors in different places, and occasionally lashes > out. Apparantly it refrains from solving because the gods damn well > keep it from doing so, using the Orb. Why "using the Orb"? They held in the Greater Sea somehow, and had no Orb to work with. (Well, I suppose they *might* have done, what with living in non-linear time and all, but it strikes me as inelegant.) Alexx Alexx Kay Opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily those of my employers alexx at world.std.com http://world.std.com/~alexx The word "masturbate" was censored out of one of the stories. He [Neil Gaiman] said Karen Berger told him, "It is official policy. People don't masturbate in the DC universe." To which Neil replied, "That's why they all wear funny costumes."