# Black Mechanics, Golems & Chems, oh my! *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 04 Nov 1998* > 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. --- ### Derek Bell *04 Nov 1998, 21:23* It's just struck me that there may be a possibility of a golem-like legend on the Whorl. One version of the legend of the golem tells of an incident where the golem is told to fill a bath, but not to stop when it's full enough, with the result that the golem went into an infinite loop, constantly filling the bath. Now I wonder if a chem ever went into such a loop on the Whorl, either through accident or deliberate sabotage. Hmmm... Gene Wolfe could make a whole novel out of that! Derek *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---