Cover of Whorl
The Whorl list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 14 Dec 2000
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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


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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes — 14 Dec 2000, 14:13
  follows, by subject match 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...


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Kevin J. Maroney — 14 Dec 2000, 17:11
  follows, by subject match 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. 

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