# Digest whorl.v001.n068 *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 24 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 *24 Mar 1997, 00:17* > This doesn't persuade me. Holy Katharine is not the patron of Nessus, > only of the torturers. St. Catherine (of the St. Catherine's wheel fame) > was martyred (IIRC) on a burning wheel. If anything, this is an allusion > to the fact that the towers are themselves rockets. The library > reference > is too broad: are ALL libraries in fiction automatically the Great > Library > of Alexandria? Not at all. It's only a way of looking at things, and it only works if you think that Wolfe drops deliberate, somewhat cryptic clues as to geography. It's part of a scheme that I honestly don't have time to post right now as I'm on a couple of deadlines. But I will. And you probably won't like it! Questions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com ---