# Cover of Whorl *The Whorl list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 14 Dec 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. --- ### Paul C Duggan *14 Dec 2000, 16:48* I don't think its supposed to look like Wolfe. Is there any reason it couldn't be the Mother? It could be vaguely feminine... Paul *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *14 Dec 2000, 14:13 · follows Paul C Duggan* > I don't think its supposed to look like Wolfe. Is there any reason > it couldn't be the Mother? It could be vaguely feminine... No, it couldn't be, because of something Kevin Maroney said two weeks or so back: > The character depicted on the cover of _Return_ is new to that volume, > and has not been seen (or mentioned, I believe) previously. ...but possibly a being of the same sort... *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. --- ### Kevin J. Maroney *14 Dec 2000, 17:11 · follows Dan'l Danehy-Oakes* > At 04:48 PM 12/14/00 -0500, Paul D wrote: > I don't think its supposed to look like Wolfe. Is there any reason it > couldn't be the Mother? It could be vaguely feminine... It isn't. As I said, the character on the cover of _Whorl_ did not appear in _Blue_ or _Green_, or in any other Wolfe work that I'm aware of. (I believe. There might have been a mention that I've forgotten. But I wouldn't have forgotten the Mother.) I realize that speculation is fun, but this is a dead end. ``` 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. ``` ---