# A tidbit from _Lake of the Long Sun_ *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 03 Nov 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. --- ### Dan Rabin *03 Nov 1999, 21:22* On pp. 169-170 (US hardcover) of _Lake_, Silk is telling Oreb how augurs are chosen (they figuratively sail past Scylla, who takes them): "... That is why artists show her [Scylla] with many long arms like whips. She snatched me up with one, you see." And on p. 192, most memorably, an image of Scylla snatches him up with a long arm like a whip. "Generous Gene, clever foreshadowing is yours, and metaphor and simile. I search for ways in which I may have displeased you, and I find this: I often miss your carefully crafted details even after many rereadings. Grant it to me to read with greater attention! My purchase of your first editions shall be yours, Generous Gene!" :-) -- Dan Rabin *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---