# TWK: More Mag *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 21 Dec 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. --- ### Roy C. Lackey *21 Dec 2005, 06:22* Last Feb. 25, I made a speculative post about Mag, and Art's mysterious connections to her. Here is a tidbit I overlooked, but which only serves to muddy the waters further. It comes just after the death of Gilling, when Able was treating Toug's injuries in Thiazi's quarters. Thiazi had just come in, and Able was introducing the two slave women present, Etela and her mother, to him. To the best of my knowledge and belief, this scene in Thiazi's room was the first occasion in the 900 page story where Able met either female. He says to Thiazi, "And this woman is her [Etela's] mother. I think I know her name, but it would be better if she were to introduce herself." The woman (Lynnet) ignored him. (W, 249) Three pages later, Able asked Toug what her name was. Not even Toug knew it; Etela had to supply the name. What's going on here? Why did Able/Art think he knew the name of a woman he hadn't even met before? Able's first mention of her was page 247. "There was moonlight in the eyes of the strange woman Etela called Mama; I wondered what those eyes would be like when the moon was full, and found myself hoping I would never see them by moonlight." Able and Lynnet then go on to enter the Room of Lost Love. -Roy --- ### David Duffy *07 Jan 2006, 06:31 · in reply to Roy C. Lackey* I was rereading _The World of Null A_ recently (it wasn't as bad as I was expecting ;)) and noticed a couple of interesting parallels. One is the setting on Venus, which I had completely forgotten: it is a green world covered by enormous trees (mile high?). Secondly, the amnesiac hero gets there by dying on earth and awakening there in a new body, and returns to Earth by spaceship. As usual, overall there are more differences than similarities between Short Sun and _Null A_. A third resemblance is Gosseyn's method of immortality, cf _The Fifth Head_. David Duffy. ---