# Pleading Ignorance *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 04 Jul 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. --- ### Nigel Price *04 Jul 1999, 17:58* >> -Ozma of Oz-, published in the early years of this century >> (and a book we're pretty sure Wolfe has read, given "Eyeflash"), >> has an underlake bubble-dome city operated by a sort of >> hydraulic lift; it had little submarines too. I have only ever read the first of the Oz books, and really must get round to reading some of the later volumes in the series. Motifs from these works seem to have entered Wolfe's stories by some form of Ozmosis. *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---