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I don't think its supposed to look like Wolfe. Is there any reason it couldn't be the Mother? It could be vaguely feminine...
Paul
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Paul C Duggan
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I don't think its supposed to look like Wolfe. Is there any reason it couldn't be the Mother? It could be vaguely feminine...
No, it couldn't be, because of something Kevin Maroney said two weeks or so back:
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The character depicted on the cover of Return is new to that volume, and has not been seen (or mentioned, I believe) previously.
...but possibly a being of the same sort...
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At 04:48 PM 12/14/00 -0500, Paul D wrote:
I don't think its supposed to look like Wolfe. Is there any reason it couldn't be the Mother? It could be vaguely feminine...
It isn't. As I said, the character on the cover of Whorl did not appear in Blue or Green, or in any other Wolfe work that I'm aware of. (I believe. There might have been a mention that I've forgotten. But I wouldn't have forgotten the Mother.)
I realize that speculation is fun, but this is a dead end.
Kevin Maroney | Unplugged Games
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