# Whorl's destination? *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 18 Jan 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. --- ### Jacob Corbin *18 Jan 2000, 01:47* <<< I had definitely hoped for some new light to be cast on the story or characters of the New Sun - else why bother with them? >>> Half-serious two-a.m. speculation: is it at all possible that the Whorl's next destination is Urth itself? If that were the case, it would go a long way towards washing the Red Sun passages of their vaguely unhealthy, fanficcy air ("Oooh! It's Severian! Oooh! It's the Samru! Oooh! It's Abaia!" & so on.) Certainly the idea lends a new cachet to RTTW's title. And consider: the Whorl would return to a very Blue-like (and mostly empty) planet, ripe for repopulation. Perhaps this has something to do with Horn's bargain with the sea-monster Scylla. Perhaps Horn's spirit is on Urth, and perhaps that's why Nettle decided to leave. And perhaps I'm just a loon.... Jacob G Corbin *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---