# Pajaroku *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 11 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. --- ### Alice Turner *11 Oct 1999, 19:26* Could there possibly be a more Borgesian sounding town name than Pajarocu? I :don't think so. And the concept of it, a phantom town, an invisible :city--the perfect mix of Borges and Calvino. The way the people look seems :somewhat Mayan to me, but with differences. I would not characterize the :Mayan people as "extremely thin," in fact they are rather on the sturdy, :compact side. Also, in my opinion, Mayan features suit men much better than :they do women, but Horn sees it differently. Maybe they are more Incan than :Mayan--I have never been to Peru so can't judge first-hand. :-alga *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---