# Digest whorl.v012.n010 *The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 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. --- ### akt *27 Nov 2000, 20:10* > From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" > I doubt that Wolfe would resort to that cheesy trope of sticking > himself > in the > book, but you never know.... > > You mean like the cheesy authors of stories like "The Last Thrilling > Wonder > Story" and "The Fifth Head of Cerebus?" Yeah, you're probably right... > > --Blattid What does "blattid" mean? It's not in the OED. -alga *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *28 Nov 2000, 07:58 · follows akt* Alga emerged from her pond and asked: > What does "blattid" mean? It's not in the OED. One of the Blattidaea, of course. Or, as my dear old grammaw would say, "One of dem cock-a-roaches." Blatt! Blatt! *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---