# Digest whorl.v001.n056 *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 07 Mar 1997* > 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. --- ### Alice Turner *07 Mar 1997, 10:49* Quill: You've demonstrated a fine ability to fling mantis into orbit in his antic mantic mode! I like that Mint theory. Wolfe is very coy about Mint--we know nothing at all about her background, not even her original name, which is unusual in so important a figure. The only small argument against it is that the two embryos we know for sure (not counting lynxes) are never demonstrably possessed---I consider enlightenment to be something else. OTOH, Mint's possession is very different from anyone else's. We won't know for sure unless it comes up in the new series. I think the Triv theory of no images refers back to Islam more than anything else--Triovdom is sort of a feminist Islamic parody. No theophanies isn't the same as no images. I wish someone here would clear up the Triv language for us! > Another idea: why on Urth would Tartaros want to save all of > Pas's nasty parts? If I were him, I'd have filtered out Pas's spirit > and molded him into what was needed before I stored him- castrated > him, lets say. But I think that's just what Tartaros did. (Actually, I think he limited it even more, since I think "Pas" is just a shell.) -alga- Questions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com ---