# Silk for President! *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 27 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. --- ### Kevin J. Maroney *27 Nov 2000, 19:49* I currently have a cold, possibly with a minor fever, and my troubled dreams kept trying to convince me that there are coded messages in _The Book of the Short Sun_ which will reveal who will, in the long run, win the 2000 presidential election. Alas, I can't remember any of the codes, but I did come away with one key insight: Bush is a plant, and Gore is an animal byproduct. So is this a battle of the sexes? ``` Kevin Maroney | Unplugged Games kmaroney at ungames.com | (212) 777-1190 *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ``` ---