# RTTW spoilers Kypris with a whip *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 24 Feb 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. --- ### Michael Andre-Driussi *24 Feb 2001, 19:32* > Bob Musser wrote: > Actually, I liked that theory just fine. We get so little information > on the return of Seawrack, though, that it's tough to hang a theory > on it. More questions raised than answered. As I was (re)reading > through the Afterword, I was struck by Daisy's description of > Seawrack: > > "Lovely though Seawrack was, with her snowy skin, blue eyes and > fair hair, there was something animal about her. It seemed clear to > me that she trusted only "Father," and would have put her long > knife into any other person as readily as I would gut a fish." > > If Seawrack is possessed by a god at this point, doesn't it sound > more like Surging Scylla than Comely Kypris? Thin evidence > indeed, I admit, but interesting, given the Urth Scylla-Whorl Scylla- > Mother connection (whatever THAT actually is...). Well, =maybe= . . . I mean, I recall too well my own similar reaction to a possession in the Long Sun series, thinking that it must have been a goddess of war (Scylla or Spingx) rather than a goddess of love, since She had a Big Whip and was cracking it in fury . . . turns out, when we asked Wolfe about it, that it really was Love. He doesn't want Love presented as some sort of milquetoast, lisping, etc. sort of thing. She can really kick bootie, no kidding. All details in the archives. =mantis= Sirius Fiction Catalog and errata sheet at http://www.sirius.com/~mantis/ *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---