# the outfit *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 19 Apr 2000* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### DAnger4444 *19 Apr 2000, 12:21* > Another question: what is the historical basis (if any) for our > conception of how a torturer looks? In other words, from whence comes > the image of the bare-chested masked torturer? > Lex Shellac Wolfe himself remarked that the whole book came out of the idea to dress as a character in a fantasy novel for one of those big sci-fi conventions. The outfit intrigued him ( I don't know where he got the image, though), and the novel grew out of that. Sounds a bit coy, but in art, so much can come out of so little. Wolfe was obviously having thoughts in this direction anyway... DA ---