# Question(Final Draft) *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 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. --- ### Joel Priddy *16 May 1997, 14:38* Okay, here's my question. Thanks for the input. I'm immensly curious about the Pas-Typhon head thing, but I think this is probably the question that will shed the most light on the series. mantis, I'm including a short form and long form version of my question. I'll let you decide which is more appropriate to send. BTW, thanks for setting this up, bringing christmas in May. long form: What is the source of information for the auguries? Silk reads a lot of the series plot from a pile of guts at Orpine's funeral. Some options that I can come up with for the source of Silk's very accurate divination are: chance (lucky guess by Silk); divine (the Outsider); mechanical (Mainframe beams information into the augurs head); genetic (the animals are genetically manipulated fortune cookies, each with a different message built into them); mystical (the gods have become real greco-pagan style gods); psychic (Silk, the former frozen embryo, has precognitive abilities); or historical (Horn, or his sources, add in the details later). or short form: Silk makes a very accurate divination at Orpine's funeral. Are divinations usually this accurate on the Whorl? What source informs a divination by augury? JOEL -cephalothorax- ---