# The Ring *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 30 Jan 2000* > 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. --- ### Alex David Groce *30 Jan 2000, 11:03* Actually, the whole ring business is going to bother me until I know what is going on with it, because it reminds me of something very strongly: Thomas Covenant. Yes--Horn rapes Seawrack, and she gives him a white/gold ring with mysterious powers; as Covenant raped Lena, who (did she? I don't really remember) gives him a white-gold ring with mysterious powers. If it was anything else, I'd say the reference was obvious, but I so disliked the Covenant books that I'm really hoping that future events will convince me this resemblance is purely accidental. "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32 ``` Alex David Groce (agroce+ at cs.cmu.edu) Ph.D. Student, Carnegie Mellon University - Computer Science Department 8112 Wean Hall (412)-268-3066 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~agroce *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ``` ---