# Seawrack *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 16 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. --- ### Alice Turner *16 Nov 1999, 10:10* > From: "William H. Ansley" > OK, all of you people who think Wolfe always has a reason for everything > he > writes (you know who you are!), what is the reason for Seawrack's missing > right arm? [snip] > Is Seawrack really missing an arm or is Horn being mislead somehow? > ("Prepare for mind control!" -Evil, in the film _Time Bandits_.) > From: Alex David Groce > At the end of OBW, I pity Seawrack, and think no ill of her, > but I have a sneaking suspicion that the hints dropped and Krait's evident > distrust of her may indicate that she's less innocent and good than she > seems. I'm in this camp. To start with, Seawrack was a gift from a mysterious entity, and surely we've learned to beware of such gifts. Krait's suspicion is a real clue too--in his maunderings, Horn speaks of future deeds on Green with a real love for Krait, but I don't recall anything of the sort re Seawrack. Now that Wm. points it out, I too find that arm thing odd, though I do think it's really missing. (Perhaps she can grow it back?) Especially since native fauna all seem to have multiple limbs. -alga *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---