# My Question *The Whorl list — 5 messages, 5 voices, 16 May 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. --- ### Wesley Parsons (7065) *16 May 1997, 08:22* I've been reading the posts every day, but have only contributed a few thoughts myself. I do have a question for Mr. Wolfe. It's oblique and may be inapposite. But, for what it's worth, Is there a member (current, former, or future) of the Order of Seekers for Truth and Penitence on the Whorl; if so, who? Wes --- ### Paul C Duggan *16 May 1997, 16:42 · follows Wesley Parsons (7065)* "Describe in detail a voided cross and a gammadion" --- ### Alice Turner *25 Jun 1997, 18:45 · follows Paul C Duggan* Um, mantis, didn't you get my email? I'd like my question to be: Why did Auk/Tartaros kidnap Hyacinth, and why, subsequently, did he let her go? Can't the Pike's ghost question be from all of us? -a plaintive alga- --- ### m.driussi *26 Jun 1997, 01:27 · follows Alice Turner* Reply: Item #0457038 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET03# alga, Ah, my mistake--which is why I will henceforth stick to my guns and not allow =any= first train questioneers until the mad dash in real time at the last second as determined by myself and my whim. What the hey--it is Wednesday already. And I wanna send it out on Friday morning. Okay, we'll throw open the cattle car doors for Thursday, 26 Jun 1997, GMT. And the first one at 00:02:42 is alga, with her question re: what she just said. OKAY everybody, only eight (8) more seats left on this train! And only 23 odd hours left to fill 'em! =mantis= P.S. I guess this means Wesley Parsons might not make it in time, re: his automated reply to alga's message. --- ### Kieran Cleary *26 Jun 1997, 15:37 · follows m.driussi* Dear Wesley Parsons: I'm a subscriber to the whorl mailing list, and received the following message about 70 times today. ---------- > From: WESLEY PARSONS > To: whorl at lists.best.com > Subject: (whorl) My question -Reply > Date: Thursday, June 26, 1997 1:00 AM > > > [Posted from WHORL, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long > Sun] > > I'm out of the office today. Please call my secretary, Ginger Brown, at > 7066, or leave me a voicemail message at X 7065. > > *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---