Re: Sun-Centered? (was: The Flat Earth?)

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From: Ben Newsam
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 00:00

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christy@rschp2.anu.edu.au "Andrew Christy" writes:
>   BUT: are you sure you don't mean PARKER'S PIECE : the lamp post in the centre
> of that patch of green has been called 'Reality Checkpoint' for a long time.
> I always assumed the name was something to do with it sitting at the interface
> between touristville/mediaeval colleges on the one side, and the real world
> on the other. But then I'd try to walk home (down Mill Road) and end up in
> Narnia instead...

BUT: Reality Checkpoint is NOT in the centre of Parker's Piece, it's a small,
insignificant lamp post (fairly) near the edge of the vast Universe of grass.

<Sigh>, I guess it's all relative...

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From: Ben Newsam <Ben@microser.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Sun-Centered? (was: The Flat Earth?)
Date: 1995/05/19
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