# Digest whorl.v010.n135 *The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 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. --- ### Alice Turner *22 Jul 2000, 12:59* From Chris Culver: > 2) Wolfe uses Italian now, interesting. I'm sure using an Italian > dictionary > on the character's names will yield some enlightening information. I translated most of the characters' names for mantis. Would the list like this to be posted? (It saves time with a dictionary, and is, in a few cases, amusing.) You could email me, but, if there are compelling negatives, perhaps posting is better. -alga *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. --- ### William Ansley *22 Jul 2000, 23:04 · follows Alice Turner* > >From Chris Culver: >> 2) Wolfe uses Italian now, interesting. I'm sure using an Italian >> dictionary >> on the character's names will yield some enlightening information. > I translated most of the characters' names for mantis. Would the list > like this to be posted? (It saves time with a dictionary, and is, in a > few cases, amusing.) You could email me, but, if there are compelling > negatives, perhaps posting is better. > > -alga Please post! ``` William Ansley *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ``` ---