# Pajarocu *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. --- ### Fernando Q. Gouvea *11 Oct 1999, 20:20* My reaction to "Pajarocu" is that it sounded a lot like words from indigenous tribes from the Amazon. To be specific, it brought to mind "pirarucu", a large fish which is one of the staple foods of the region. It's sufficiently well known that I learned about it in elementary school in southern Brazil... I've been lurking on the conversation, so, now that I've started talking again, perhaps I should say that I too am rather amazed at "Blue"... Wolfe's books just seem to get more and more complex, more and more artful, more and more entrancing. Fernando ``` Fernando Q. Gouvea Department of Mathematics Editor, FOCUS and MAA Online Colby College http://www.maa.org Waterville, ME 04901 fqgouvea at colby.edu http://www.colby.edu/math ========================================================== I could dance till the cows come home. On second thought, I'd rather dance with the cows till you come home. -- Groucho Marx *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ``` ---