# RTW cover: another candidate *The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 01 Jan 2001* > 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. --- ### Nicholas Gevers *01 Jan 2001, 11:37* Could it be that the giant on the cover of RTW is Quadrifons? Alga will no doubt disappoint me, though... --- ### Kevin J. Maroney *01 Jan 2001, 19:38 · follows Nicholas Gevers* > At 11:37 AM 1/1/01 -0800, Nick Gevers wrote: > Could it be that the giant on the cover of RTW is > Quadrifons? Alga will no doubt disappoint me, though... Once more: it is not a character who has been named in any previous novel, as far as I can tell. Quadrifons does feature in _Return_, though. ``` Wombat, a.k.a Kevin Maroney *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ``` ---