# tick talk, nessus nexus, pas proof *The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 19 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. --- ### Ranjit Bhatnagar *19 Mar 1997, 12:44* Distractions... 1. Those of you who want to learn to talk like Tick should look for the book _Anguish Languish_ by Howard L. Chace (late '50s?). It's an entire book of familiar poems and stories as recited by a catachrest. Marry hatter ladle limb Itch fleas worse widest snore An ever-wear debt Marry win Door lamp worse shorter gore. A French-speaking catachrest reciting English rhymes (named Sparling? Anyone got a better suggestion?) would have written _Mots d'heures: gousses, rames_ by Courtlandt H. K. Van Rooten (1967). 2. From now on, nobody's allowed to speculate on the location of Nessus unless they balance it with an equal or greater amount of speculation on the geography of the Whorl. Violators will be fined two cardbits. The moderator has spoken. Speculation follows: Remember that Typhon came to rule the entire short-sun whorl, so it's likely that he plucked colonists from all over the planet to settle on the Whorl-- thus the variety of cultures in the different cities. I wonder if he laid 'em out in any pattern or just scattered them around? With Trivigaunte next-door to Viron, it seems unlikely. Random thought: Mamelta's not Vironese, so her name doesn't need to be a plant. 3. The Seal of Pas: 5553 8783 4223 9700 34 2221 0401 1101 7276 56 They're either Mastercard numbers (long expired by 332) or Typhon's PGP key. Finally, a reminder: please send BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS with brief descriptions/reviews to Ultan at moonmilk.volcano.org so we can open a whorl library. Just those books, please, which you like specifically because you're the kind of person who reads Wolfe. Um, if you know what I mean. r. Questions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com --- ### Joshua A. Solomon *19 Mar 1997, 19:54 · follows Ranjit Bhatnagar* > Ranjit Bhatnagar wrote: > > The moderator has > spoken. Dear moderator Again, I apologize for starting this Nessus thread. While I still receive Whorl postings, It seems that I can no longer post myself. Have I been blackballed? Should I re-subscribe? bee PS My rejected post was not returned in full by whorl-errors. It did have *some* LONG SUN content. Is there any way that it can be resurrected? Or should I just try again? ``` Joshua A. Solomon Institute of Ophthalmology Bath Street London EC1V 9EL Voice: (44) 171 608 6924 Fax: (44) 171 608 6846 j.solomon at ucl.ac.uk http://vision.arc.nasa.gov/personnel/jsolomon Questions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com ``` ---