Outer Qwghlm
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Cryptonomicon: Like every other place name in the British Isles, Inner and Outer Qwghlm represent a gross misnomer with ancient and probably comical origins. Inner Qwghlm is hardly even an island; it is joined to the mainland by a sandbar that used to come and go with the tides, but that has been beefed up with a causeway that carries a road and the railway line. Outer Qwghlm is twenty miles away. The prongs, called Sghrs, are basaltic columns. This being the middle of the Second World War, and Outer Qwghlm being the part of the British Isles closest to the action of the Battle of the Atlantic, they are now flecked with little white radio shacks and hairy with antennas. ...
Authored entries
- Stephenson:Neal:Quicksilver:370:Qwghlm (Neal Stephenson)
- Stephenson:Neal:Quicksilver:772:Sghr (Jeremy Bornstein)
Outer Qwghlm
The mainland of Qwghlm called the "Outer" by its inhabitants. In the late 17th century, The former mudlark Jack Shaftoe is familar with the wreckers who use the rocks and reefs of Inner Qwghlm to their advantage.
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- Stephenson:Neal:Quicksilver:Sghr
- Stephenson:Neal:Quicksilver:370:Qwghlm (Neal Stephenson)
- Stephenson:Neal:Quicksilver:772:Sghr (Jeremy Bornstein)