Mysteries of the Whorl

m.driussi · 11 Apr 1997, 16:28 · from whorl-v0004.mbox · original

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From: m.driussi at genie.com
Subject: (whorl) Mysteries of the Whorl
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 97 16:28:00 GMT
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[Posted from WHORL, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun]

Reply:  Item #0548146 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET00#

viscacha,

Yay!  Mysteries!  Lists of things!

You are off to a good start, IMHO.  I was thinking you might want to
re-organize it by "big" and "little" mysteries, but on second thought
I realized that our group could probably never reach agreement on
which were either <g>, so best skip that taxonomic angle.  Instead,
maybe divide the mysteries up into rough topics, like "Identities"
for issues of disguise, "Lineage" for issues of genetic/familial
lines, et cetera?  Well, maybe not--already I see some potential overlap
with only two categories.

Hey, it also looks like a FAQ sheet!  (Rather than "frequently asked
questions" maybe ours would be "frequently argued quibbles"? <g>)

=3Dmantis=3D

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