# On Blue's Waters [Wolfe self-reference?][no actual spoilers] *The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 24 Sep 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. --- ### David_Lebling *24 Sep 1999, 13:52* Horn runs through other versions of Silk's story (Horn's is _The Book of the Long Sun_, commonly known as _The Book of Silk_). One he mentions that he hasn't read was written by a man in the city of Urbasecundus, in English "Second City." Now, what large city with that sobriquet does Wolfe live near? (I've read two chapters and already have several mysteries to think about, and at least one from tBotLS elucidated -- more on that later.) --Dave Lebling (aka vizcacha) *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. --- ### Alastair Reynolds *25 Sep 1999, 10:00 · follows David_Lebling* > Horn runs through other versions of Silk's story (Horn's is _The Book of the > Long Sun_, commonly known as _The Book of Silk_). One he mentions that he > hasn't read was written by a man in the city of Urbasecundus, in English "Second > City." Now, what large city with that sobriquet does Wolfe live near? > > (I've read two chapters and already have several mysteries to think about, and > at least one from tBotLS elucidated -- more on that later.) > > --Dave Lebling > (aka vizcacha) So where does GW live? Is it Chicago? Funnily enough, (because I only noticed it yesterday) in the Fifth Head of Cerberus, he mentions a book called Monday or Tuesday, leaning against a book on the assassination of Trotsky. Since the Trotsky book must have been written by Trotsky's bodyguard, Bernard "Limbo" Wolfe, I presume we're meant to conclude that the other book, if they're filed alphabetically, is by GW... Al *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---