# VHoC *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 26 Jan 2005* > 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. --- ### Jim Raylor *26 Jan 2005, 16:06* Yes Maru. It is 3 novellas written as one story. Of this I am certain. The ascians/abos are people like us Even the deer-hunter, the elephant-man and the old whaler recognised this at last. There is a method to this madness but the full mystery (Mr. E is unlike Maitre D'Iffy) is not yet revealed to me. M'sieur Yves? or did you say Eve? Gene Wolfe is prisoner 143, but he is a cypher for everyone who suffers unjustly, whatever their species. or type. Bien sur. We are all related, names only tell half the story. I hope this helps Jim ---