On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Bryan Newell wrote:
> If I accept the following as my postulates:
>
> 1. Mr. Brust hasn't made any mistakes in geography (ie, this isn't a Crack)
>
> 2. Neither Vlad or Paarfi is lying or _completely_ wrong (I'm betting
> Dragaerans (or at least Vlad) don't know geometry very well, see below).
[lots of nice work snipped]
> Anyone else have any explanations or ideas that don't violate my postulates
> above? While I haven't quoted them, there are more references (mostly from
> Paarfi) that agree with Vlad's figures; I can provide them if anyone wants
> to see them...
re 2), you neglect slips of tongue and dyscartia, if that's a word.
In plenty of European languages "west" and "east" are sadly similar,
and otherwise sensible people (e.g. me) get mixed up ("so we drive up to
Bush and take a right and then since they said it would be on the right
past Laguna driving west from downtown we'll have to curl around" said
my gf the other day, which was completely confusing to me since I blanked
on what "west from downtown" meant at that point).
Anyway, sounds like you should dub yourself official cartographer (if the
position's available) and post the rest of your evidence from Paarfi.
You can remind me where the Greater Sea and the actual sea are, for
instance, and how one gets to the latter from the east...