# Mucor's parentage; Chenille *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. --- ### David_Lebling *06 Feb 1997, 17:00* [Mucor] I've checked out the two references that mantis gave on Mucor's parentage, and sorry, I don't buy it. Both are in exactly the form that implies a caring or proprietary relationship, similar to referring to children with disabilities as "Jerry's Kids," due to Jerry Lewis's sponsorship of his telethon. When Silk says Mucor is a child of Molpe's, he means that she is insane. Molpe is the patroness of the insane (being subject to insanity herself). The reference to Heirax is similar. [Chenille] I agree with algae (actually isn't one an _alga_?) that Chenille is the normal, straightforward daughter of Tussah. There's a passage soon after Silk gets confirmation that he is Tussah's adopted son in which Chenille's face is described in exactly the words used to describe Tussah's: "coarse features, broad flat cheeks" (more or less). Dave (david_lebling at avid.com) Questions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com ---