Greg S’s Reviews > I Who Have Never Known Men > Status Update

Totally, decorum is important after 20 years. — “I was on the toilet, passing a motion…”

just look at them? — “I prowled around the equipment in the corridor for ages, picking it up and putting it back, because I knew full well that my determination wouldn’t make up for the information I lacked. I still go and look at it sometimes.”

you’d need two cabins to orient yourself. — “I soon became able, on arriving at a cabin, to work out which way to go to find the next one, and could go to them…”

“I walked back and forth, and had to resign myself to the fact that the road ended there…my anger was the stronger and drove me on. I had to decide on a new direction. At first I’d chosen the east, then the road had made me deviate towards the south-west…”

Using math and the author’s units of steps, this would be between 5,500 to 5,365 hrs to cover the area. — “I decided to cover a vast semicircular area with a radius of five thousand steps. For three days, I walked back and forth…”

Nope. — “My first stop was after five hours. I’d counted thirty-seven thousand, seven hundred and forty-two steps….That came out at seven thousand, one hundred and fifty steps an hour.”

“…on Earth, we’d have noticed the changing of the seasons, but here, over several months, the days had barely become shorter, and the weather was not noticeably cooler…In so far as there were seasons on this planet where things varied so little, winter returned. The temperature was slightly cooler…

uh huh. — “Now that I had a book and could learn to read…”

wild that they never invented music from banging on pots. — “I filled one of the big cooking pots with water and boiled my washing…”

literally all the time in the world. — “…but I was extremely reluctant to retrace my steps when there was so much new ground ahead.”