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Kieran Mullen · 16 May 1997, 11:25 · from whorl-v0005.mbox · original

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From: Kieran Mullen <kieran at phyast.nhn.ou.edu>
Subject: (whorl) Re:  Digest whorl.v005.n013
Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 11:25:29
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[Posted from WHORL, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun]

Question for Mr. Wolfe:

   It's pretty broadly indicated that Silk was gestated from a frozen=20
embroyo as Mucor was.   This has some nice symbolic effects ("virgin
birth", the hero as having unusual origins, etc.).  Does Silk have any
human engineered, extraordinary abilities? =20

   (Possible Lupine hint:  he knew Hyacinth's name before she was=20
introduced, and felt that they had made a non-physical contact.)

   Please pass along my compliments to Mr. Wolfe as one of the most=20
creative, skilled, and theologically fascinating writers I've ever read.

                 Thanks,

                           Kieran Mullen

 Kieran Mullen                         email: kieran at mail.nhn.ou.edu
 Dept. of Physics and Astronomy        phone: (405) 325-3961
 The University of Oklahoma            FAX: (405) 325-7557
 Norman, OK 73019, USA                 http://www.nhn.uoknor.edu/~kieran/

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