More on that dust-jacket

[Michael McAulay]

Vaska [vaska at geocities.com] writes:

You may be onto something real here.  In the sense of deliberate and
carefully set up by our author himself.  

In which case, I'll take up the matter with Mr. P. in person, once we
are both the other side of the really Big Divide, and ask him how come S
is "natural" and X is "man-made."  Many things natural display that X
structure and/or formation, no?

And LBernier at tribune.com adds:

Yes, a good example of angles in nature, might be a tree, which can be
broken down into a series of Y's or V's - IMHO, Nature is seldom curvy,
unless it's been exposed to forces such as water or wind, which will,
over time, smooth out the angles.

To which I reply:

Please have a gander at a topographical map or two.  Remember that we
are talking about terrain here.  For E-Z reference, I found a nice
example at:

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/united_states/Carmelby
theSea_Ca83.jpg

If this doesn't convince you (!) then refer to the text.  For instance,
pp. 544-545.

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Mike McAulay
Sr. Engineer
3DO