# Talus(os) *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 20 Feb 1999* > 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. --- ### Alice Turner *20 Feb 1999, 14:35* > At 10:10 PM 2/16/99, Robert Patterson wrote: >> But doesn't Mr. Wolfe explicitly mention guard robots under the Talos >> entry in "Onomastics?" A role Dr. Talos actually plays in Chapter >> XXXV of _Sword_ -- there's one small connection for you. > Okay. Perhaps Wolfe & Edmund Spencer read some of the same books! Well, yeah, I bet they did. Maybe Apollonius Rhodus, Apollodorus or Plato, all of whom tell the story. Or, in Wolfe's case, Graves, who cites them. Whee, I can post again! -alga *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---