# Digest whorl.v001.n035 *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 06 Feb 1997* > 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 *06 Feb 1997, 14:06* First, Dave, I'm so glad you concentrated on Mint---she was going to be next for me, but now I don't have to---and Pas. Especially glad to learn that no Echidna soils little Mint. Agreed that the Pas timeline is puzzling. Maybe mantis, who loves timelines, can help us out. Mantis, one caveat: Scylla boasts about the lake being her screen, but in fact she uses conventional screens both to enter and to exit Chenille. I'm of the non-aquastor crowd re Pike (right up there beating the drum) and I think it's perfectly possible, without self-contradiction, for Silk to have a near-death vision. And in Wolfe's world, whether LS or NS, it's possible for that vision to be more or less "true." But, my friend, haven't you undercut your own theory (not shared by moi) that Kypris is Silk's mum, since he does not recognize the blonde as Kypris? OTOH, I'm impressed with your discovery of Molpe's parentage, and I wish I were near the books so I could check it out at once. I don't think Chenille is a uberfrau. Chenille, bless her heart, seems to me one of the few people in the book who is exactly what she seems to be (except for her dyed hair). Yes, she's Tussah's natural daughter, but she was brought up in the gutter. And I believe she really loves Auk and he her (well, Kypris *orders* him to love her, but he already does) and I hope for happy ever altering though I'm not entirely optimistic (algae says hastily to avoid seeming sappy). -algae- Questions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com ---