# Digest whorl.v010.n078 *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 07 Feb 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. --- ### David Langford *07 Feb 2000, 10:08* Alga bloomed: [quoting me] >> When members of this very list posed a number of questions to Wolfe >> back in 1997, Q27 and Wolfe's answer went as follows: >> >> Is Pike's ghost really Quetzal? >> No. > Oh, who cares what he says! I'm sticking to my guns. Right on! What does he know? Besides, in an on-line chat elsewhere, Wolfe also remarked that Quetzal was not the only one of his kind on the Whorl. So maybe the answer would have been different if we'd put the question in the form, "Was 'Pike's ghost' a member of Quetzal's species?" Ah, the joys of hindsight. Dave David Langford ansible at cix.co.uk | http://www.ansible.co.uk/ *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---