# The beauty part

*The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 19 Aug 2000*

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### akt
*19 Aug 2000, 15:16*

Wombat enquired:

> *Must we assume that, with a name like that, Endymion is a monster? 

Hell, no, though he might be asleep at the wheel!

-alga


*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.

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### Endymion9
*19 Aug 2000, 21:02 · follows akt*

alga scripted:

>> Wombat enquired:
>> 
>> *Must we assume that, with a name like that, Endymion is a monster?

> Hell, no, though he might be asleep at the wheel!

Actually, I'm just a person who throughly enjoys reading Gene Wolfe stories.
I often don't understand them.  I never understand them fully.  And I feel
fortunate to understand more of them by reading the opinions of the
*professional* Wolfe readers here <smile>.



...Ah, Artemis, Artemis wherefore art though Artemis?

Dennis/Endy
http://home.mindspring.com/~endymion9/index.htm



*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.

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