From Ghyll Revision as of 18:14, 14 October 2005 by Jcowan (Talk
| contribs) Jump to: navigation, search  Objects such as the
famous mirrors of Wilhelmina Corinne Bardway are said to become
untimed when they are disconnected in some fashion from the
normal passage of time. Those particular mirrors began to
reflect events of both the recent and the remote past rather
than Wilhelmina herself as they had done before. Similarly, some
of the ancient artifacts in Undivaggen are untimed; for example,
the cheese sandwich in the 235th room of the South Wing was
apparently abandoned by an expedition more than two centuries
ago, but the cheese is still fresh and the bread unmoldy.  In
particular, the substance or entity called tristero, from which
the famous essence is made, is either itself untimed, or becomes
so when it is reduced to the essence. It is quite commonplace,
for example, to find a vial of essence filled before the
extraction process even begins, though the process must be
carried out nevertheless to avoid