# A picture of Seawrack *The Urth list — 3 messages, 2 voices, 02 Jan 2003* > 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. --- ### Andrew Bollen *02 Jan 2003, 13:36* Shewing forth my Google powers, I found this picture of Seawrack (or her sister), a delightful piece of high Victorian erotic romanticsm, together with the Goethe ballad "Der Fischer" which apparently inspired it: http://members.tripod.com/~pnkeese/_poems/fischer.htm (NB: Tripod pop-up & cheesy music warning!) Don't you wish that had been the cover OBW instead of the piece of crap they used? (maybe they could have put an old guy's head on the fisherman.) --- ### Michael Straight *02 Jan 2003, 16:02 · follows Andrew Bollen* > On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Andrew Bollen wrote: > Don't you wish that had been the cover OBW instead of the piece of crap > they used? (maybe they could have put an old guy's head on the > fisherman.) I think the colonists on Blue had lost the technology to make silk boxer shorts. I suppose it's possible Horn had some from the Whorl and kept them all these years because they reminded him of You-Know-Who. On the other hand, that brown blur in the lower right corner looks more like my mental picture of Babbie than the one on the cover of OBW. -Rostrum --- ### Andrew Bollen *02 Jan 2003, 16:20 · follows Michael Straight* > I think the colonists on Blue had lost the technology to make silk boxer > shorts. I suppose it's possible Horn had some from the Whorl and kept > them all these years because they reminded him of You-Know-Who. > > -Rostrum My theory is that they were a gift from the Mother, along with some killer aftershave, and a supersized can of viagra. ---