# Quetzal & his body suit *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 11 Apr 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. --- ### Kieran Cleary *11 Apr 1997, 15:33* vizcacha: more out of mischievousness than anything else, > His neck is unnaturally long and wrinkled, You might expect some stretching and pulling when a human body is used as a piece of apparel > his profile is nearly noseless, and some wear and tear over the years... > his head > sways from side to side, sure, there is a snake inside... > he is light but strong, and so on. because his form belies his innards... > There is > also a description of him touching up his makeup (on the first page of > _Calde_): "He had shaped and colored his face and neck with care upon > arising..." Later, "he extracted the puff ... and applied flesh-toned > powder delicately to the small, sharp chin he had shaped with such care > upon arising." Is it really feasible that, with deft application of putty and foundation that a scarlet-plumed serpent could masquerade as a human? Lasrach ____________________________________________________________ Kieran Cleary Senior Research Engineer North West Labs Finisklin Industrial Estate Sligo Republic of Ireland Tel. +353 71 69441 Fax. +353 71 69451 email kcleary at nwlabs.com ___________________________________________________________ ---