# Digest whorl.v010.n027 *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 09 Oct 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 Langford *09 Oct 1999, 13:42* In-Reply-To: <199910090010.RAA25600 at lists1.best.com> Alga wrote -- > Oh, btw the leatherskin has six legs, not eight, and three jaws. I have > trouble with the three jaws--the best I can come up with is a Big Mac or > club sandwich, with the jaws being the pieces of bread or bun. Like the three gripping segments of a drill chuck, perhaps? Of course our author must have seen a lot of those in his time. Dave David Langford ansible at cix.co.uk | http://www.ansible.demon.co.uk/ *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---