On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 05:25:28PM -0500, Peter H. Granzeau wrote: > At 01:31 04/11/2004 -0700, Damien Sullivan wrote: > >On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 06:19:01PM -0600, Bryan Newell wrote: > > > >minor, not very plot-related spoilers for _sethra lavode_ > > > >a > >b > >c > >d > >e > >f > >g > >h > >ij > >k > >l > > A > d > d > i > n > g > . > s > o > m > e > . > m > o > r > e > > >Near the end, Teldra introduces Morrolan to the facts behind the concept of > >time zones, and it is implied (a) that the world is a sphere and (b) that > >they > >don't actually know this, just that the Orca say weird things. Unless the > >world has some other weird shape, such as a cylinder or donut. Given that > >sorcerers know genetics and atomic theory (an earlier revelation of the > >book) > >this seems odd. > > Morrolan appears to have had a somewhat limited education before we first > met him--he was blissfully unaware, for instance, that he was not an > unusually long-lived Easterner, for example. But what I said wasn't (mostly) about Morrolan, but about what the Dragaerans know, as filtered through Teldra. Like, they don't know the shape of the world. 200,000 years later, they've got genes and atoms, but not "the world is round". (Possibly some sorcerers do, as atoms are an exotic concept... but did Aliera have to explain genes to Vlad? I forget.) -xx- Damien X-)