# Mucor's fish *The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 09 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. --- ### Joel Priddy *09 Nov 1999, 13:25* When I read the part where Mucor said the fish would be waiting on a rock, I just assumed that she possessed the fish, and drove them to leap out of the water. I was confused that Horn, who clearly knows all about Mucor's ability, didn;t assume this as well. So what am I missing? Is it stated somewhere in Long Sun that Mucor can't possess little-brained animals, or something? BTW, as soon as I got my copy of _OBW_, I took the paper jacket off and tossed it. I recommend this to everyone because (a) the cover is tacky to the point of acute embarassment, and (b) the hardcover under the dustwrap is actually a lovely rich blue. This greatly improved the object-quality of the book. cephalothorax *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. --- ### William H. Ansley *11 Nov 1999, 23:30 · follows Joel Priddy* > Joel Priddy wrote: > When I read the part where Mucor said the fish would be waiting on a rock, > I just assumed that she possessed the fish, and drove them to leap out of > the water. I was confused that Horn, who clearly knows all about Mucor's > ability, didn;t assume this as well. So what am I missing? Is it stated > somewhere in Long Sun that Mucor can't possess little-brained animals, or > something? I have to admit that when I read the fish story, I thought: telekinesis. Then when Horn thought someone else was responsible, I remembered: Oh, yeah. Mucor doesn't telekines (say tel-u-kin-ees... it's a joke). I agree that Mucor possessing the fish seems to satisfy Occam's razor better than invoking a mysterious third party but I just don't remember the extent of Mucor's powers. As far as I can remember, the only beings she possessed in _The Book of the Long Sun_ were human. Aside from possession, the only other power she has that I recall is the "astral projection" ability that she uses to talk to Silk, at Horn's request, in _On Blue's Waters_. Of course, we only have her word for it that she actually "talked" to Silk and for what he "said" to her. William Ansley *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---