# The God of the Crossroads *The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 18 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. --- ### BraveSaintCroix *18 Apr 2001, 19:19* All, This isn't really a discussion, just an observation that I've made that I thought was cool (and reflects how I'm probably thinking of SS a little too much). Those yellow crossroad signs with a black "sign of addition" before intersections: I've come to thinking of them as sort of a homage to Quadrifons, god of crossroads. At least, that's what they remind me of. Kinda fitting; that's what his name was supposed to be often substituted with, wasn't it? Yeah, my two bits. -Steve *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *18 Apr 2001, 12:37 · follows BraveSaintCroix* Someone may or may not have mentioned this before -- but -- Steve's comment on Quadrifons (may or may not) have a bearing on the whole problem of Silk and the inhumi. There is, you know, an established relationship of a particular kind between vampires and crossroads... *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---