# Digest whorl.v005. *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 27 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. --- ### m.driussi *27 May 1997, 20:22* Reply: Item #5934954 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Matthew Freestone, Ah, you caught the NOVELTY that I missed. I thought of it only after I'd sent, thought of sending an addendum, thought again. "Infundibular" is "funnel-shaped," isn't it? While I've noticed that the short stories in ANTIQUITIES are often "miniatures" of Crowley novels, I confess I can't quite understand how a short can be a "funnel-shaped" version of either a novel (AEGYPT) or a series of novels (AEGYPT the series). Please elaborate! (I don't have NOVELTY, btw & fwiw.) Hierodule, Ah, you were there too! Great! Hmmm--as you suggest, that history spread is quite different if it refers only to the duration of the Age of the Autarch rather than the whole period separating Earth from Severian. =mantis= ---