# Religion and You *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 27 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. --- ### akt *27 Feb 2001, 12:13* > Blattid spoke: >>>> That's you, me, and Alex ... is anyone else on this list >>>> explicitly >>>> Christian? (Is _anyone_ but me on this list explicitly Catholic?) > Dante, for instance, certainly has his share of great admirers, even > devotees, who do not share his theology or metaphysics (Borges frex). > The same holds for, say, Eliot (although to a lesser degree, and with > more controversy). I would be surprised to find Wolfe fans who don't > have the background to place the references at all, though. One can be a hobbyist. Like me. I don't believe a word of either testament, but Christianity is my favorite hobby and I'll bet I can out-reference the whole damn barroom. (I think Borges was a hobbyist too, fwiw.) Oh, on another subject, I don't believe Seawrack was "in love with" Horn either--Endy seems right on the money. I continue to be unpleasantly surprised at the seeming sketchiness and hastiness of an ending that bundles everyone (a bunch of near-strangers) off together on a Star Trek mission. -alga *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---