# First impressions of IGJ (no spoilers) *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 22 Jul 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. --- ### Adam Stephanides *22 Jul 2000, 09:55* Christopher Culver wrote [spoilers omitted]: > 2) Wolfe uses Italian now, interesting. I'm sure using an Italian dictionary > on the character's names will yield some enlightening information. Any ideas why "Blanko" and "Duko" are spelled with a k, while the other Italianate names are spelled in the conventional Italian manner? --Adam > 3) Horn tends to sound in several places like Alden Dennis Weer. I wonder if > this is just because people who have died tend to think like this in Wolfe's > mind, or Wolfe is simply reusing a previous mode of narration. > > 4) Nessus's cameo was rather amusing, but I wonder how it will be fleshed > out in _Return to the Whorl_. > > 5) Horn still thinks of Pas as a god. Hopefully he'll rid himself of this > notion by the end of the series. Although, "god" has always had a rather > different meaning in the BotLS and BotSS. > > Cheers, > > Christopher CULVER > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---