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   zvilutis@griddynamics.com to OhioGuy   
   Re: Arthur C. Clarke's "The Wall of Dark   
   02 Oct 17 14:30:53   
   
   On Sunday, February 15, 2009 at 6:55:52 PM UTC-8, OhioGuy wrote:   
      
   >    Their world evidently had an inhospitably hot north, a temperate    
   > middle, and an extremely cold south.  The south is barren, except for an    
   > insurmountable wall that stretches across the world at a point so far    
   > south that people can barely reach it during the summer, when things    
   > warm up.   
      
      
   >    Then he and an old man go over the idea that their world is like a    
   > piece of paper.  You can cut off a ~1" piece from a side, and roll it    
   > into a tube, with distinct inner and outer surfaces.  However, if you    
   > roll one end 180 degrees, you'll end up with a twisted tube where the    
   > same surface is both on the outside and the inside.   
      
   I've got confused between these 2.   
      
   If it really is twisted - then there's no way that they share the same North &   
   South; meaning N & S should be twisted as well and "walking along the North"   
   you end up getting to the South & back. AND also it should be at least dual   
   sided, because you'd    
   get to the "other side" after a twist...   
      
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