# re Bad Horn *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 17 Apr 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. --- ### Allan Lloyd *17 Apr 2001, 16:17* Adam asks what clues there are to Horn's adultery before Seawrack. Page 249 of OBW Seawrack says "Well, a woman is what I am. Like your Nettle, or the Tamarind you talk about sometimes..." And in the list of Proper Names in the Text, Tamarind is listed as "a fishmonger's widow". So that's what Horn got up to on his trips to town to sell paper! Allan (Sorry about the date on the last post, my computer thinks it's still 2000 for some reason. I hope this one's right) *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---