# Digest whorl.v012.n008 *The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 24 Nov 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. --- ### Redhaven1 *24 Nov 2000, 01:38* The idea of having the Outsider on the cover of RTTW does not sit well with me at all. Wasn't there a point in IGJ where the Outsider came to Horn on the mountain top and Horn specifically felt he shouldn't turn around and see his face? After that, having the Outsider portrayed on the cover of the next book as a frumpy-looking giant with a goofy hat just seems wrong. The idea I get of the Outsider is that one never sees his face, or if one does, it certainly doesn't look like that. At least, I hope not. -Steve *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. --- ### Mr Mnemonic *26 Nov 2000, 13:25 · follows Redhaven1* > From: Jacob G Corbin > > I hereby bet everyone on this list fifty cents apiece that the giant figure > on RETURN TO THE WHORL's cover is either a) the Outsider, b) Silk, c) Silk/Pas, d) >Gene Wolfe, or e) some mixture of any of the above. A) The Outsider? As Steve (Redhaven1) has already said, that seems a bit unlikely B) Silk? I seriously doubt it. Silk is always described as a thin, handsome young man. That giant guy doesn't look thin or handsome. C) Passilk? Probably not, because Silk doesn't look like the giant, and the giant only has one head D) Gene Wolfe? Coincidence, nothing more, I'm willing to bet E) Mixture of the above? Seriously doubt it, once again As James Jordan said, all the covers show things that happen in the book. So I say we just wait and see (and hope Gene Wolfe doesn't decide to make a cameo in his latest book ;o) -Mnemonic *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---