# Digest whorl.v009.n015 *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 12 Dec 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. --- ### Brownes3 *12 Dec 1998, 20:36* In a message dated 12/12/98 8:22:09 AM EST, whorl-errors at lists.best.com writes: << Not sure what this means. Perhaps, that Silk, as you say is a puppet of the Whorl and his church? Or does it refer to his odd tall carriage and somewhat awkward manner? >> When I read this I thought the usage was similar to that in the phrase/title "Clockwork Orange" which, I think, means something that is mechanical but shouldn't be. Rich Browne *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---