# three fingers chomp *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 18 Mar 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. --- ### maa32 *18 Mar 2003, 17:08* I read the ending of Three Fingers not so much as a picture of the main characters insanity but as a picture of confusion - I think he acts to bite off the finger of the villainous toon/executive, who has both real and mythic identities, thus making the glove both white and red with blood, and accounting for the different number of fingers. Doesn't anyone else think he is biting a finger off at the end? It's not like we've never seen cannibalism in Wolfe before. Marc Aramini ---