Go Down, Moses

Alice Turner · 27 Jun 1997, 16:32 · from whorl-v0006.mbox · original

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From: Alice Turner <al at ny.playboy.com>
Subject: (whorl) Go Down, Moses
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 1997 16:32:56
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[Posted from WHORL, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun]

At 12:26 PM 6/27/97 -0700, you wrote:
>    To me Silk has more of a Mosaic flavor to his character than Christic.
>He leads his people out of bondage to a promised planet.  However, he
>does not get to walk in the Land himself.  I mean, "Exodus"?  The burning
>bush? =20
>
>               Kieran Mullen

What it the Moses role was played by Quetzal?

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