karl@dartvax.UUCP (S. Delage.) (07/22/84)
--- The original contributor's postscript, about "it wasn't built with a wrench", reminded me of a story of Stanislaw Lem's, in which Trurl builds a whole kingdom in miniature [a couple of square feet, as I recall] for some wretched king -- and then had second thoughts when Klapaucius reminded him that those people in there were suffering. I read it in The Cyberiad, but I forget which Sally it was. That might be the smallest constructed world. Shadow must be largest, Terry Pratchett notwithstanding, since by definition it contains all other worlds, as I recall. karl@dartmouth, dartvax!karl