# 3rd person authors *The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 07 Mar 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. --- ### Sheila Herndon *07 Mar 2001, 16:43* Hi, I was just wondering if it could be possible that the kids *did* write those sections - but, in fact, not as stylishly as we're reading them. and the reason they're as stylish as we're reading them is becuase the story of Horn has turned into a religious text, and has been "intepreted" over the years by better writers? (Though, I guess not a good explanation for Pig's h'ears.) mimosa --- ### Alex David Groce *07 Mar 2001, 21:11 · follows Sheila Herndon* > Shiela Herndon wrote: > I was just wondering if it could be possible that the kids *did* > write those sections - but, in fact, not as stylishly as we're > reading them. and the reason they're as stylish as we're reading > them is becuase the story of Horn has turned into a religious text, > and has been "intepreted" over the years by better writers? (Though, > I guess not a good explanation for Pig's h'ears.) Well, it leaves a lot to be desired as an explanation (since Hoof's section is so different) but even though these kids haven't had a strong literary education, Hoof and Hide were raised by (and Daisy taught by one of) the authors of _The Book of Silk_. ``` "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32 -- Alex David Groce (agroce+ at cs.cmu.edu) Ph.D. Student, Carnegie Mellon University - Computer Science Department 8112 Wean Hall (412)-268-3066 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~agroce *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ``` ---