# The Tallus chapter *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 21 Apr 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. --- ### Paul C Duggan *21 Apr 2000, 22:01* I alluded to this when I finally got through reading Blue's Waters: doesn't Horn state that he included details in his previous work (the short sun) that were of a technical nature so that the book could also have practical value as an engineering text? That may go a way towards explaining why the tallus passage is so extended. But I like your suggestion too. Paul *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---