# Gene Wolfe's secret identity *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 22 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. --- ### William Ansley *22 Mar 2001, 11:14* Just now, as I was purchasing a book from Amazon.com, I was presented with the usual "Customers who bought the items in your shopping cart also bought:" list and on it was the entry: * Epiphany of the Long Sun by Gene Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene Exodus f Wolfe; Paperback So, just as the comics revealed who Bruce ("Batman") Wayne was, we now know not only Mr. Wolfe's secret identity but his real name as well. Now, if only Gene ("Calde of the Long Sun") Exodus F. Wolfe would tell us what the F stands for! Or, if only Amazon would hire competent data entry personnel! 8-> William Ansley *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---