# 358 years *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 01 Sep 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 *01 Sep 2000, 11:57* 358 years is an odd number seven years from 358 will be 365 years. Maybe something significant will happen to Silk in the 365th year, like Enoch, who "was not". Silk will be 365 years old, since he was an embryo when he joined the whorl. "I am an impure thinker. I am hurt, swayed, shaken, | paul + | + elated, disillusioned, shocked, comforted, and I | --|-- have to transmit my mental experiences lest I die." | + | + -- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy | pduggan at world.std.com *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ---