# Merryn, and Wijzer *The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 12 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. --- ### Nicholas Gevers *12 Oct 1999, 12:14* Two small points: Merryn as Sev's sister: Wolfe has indicated elsewhere, maybe in the PEOPLE magazine discussion, that Merryn appears in SHORT SUN, and she is widely supposed to be sister to Sev, Witch to his Torturer... And Wijzer as a Scandinavian: isn't he Dutch? "Dorp" is Dutch for "town", I think; it means that in Afrikaans. ===== --- ### Jim Jordan *12 Oct 1999, 14:24 · follows Nicholas Gevers* > At 12:14 PM 10/12/99 -0700, you wrote: > And Wijzer as a Scandinavian: isn't he Dutch? "Dorp" > is Dutch for "town", I think; it means that in > Afrikaans. Right. Sorry. Given his syntax, I suspect Afrikaans, just because what little Dutch I used to know, I don't recall as so convoluted. Nutria *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---