On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 01:43:18PM -0700, David Silberstein wrote: > On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, chris cunningham wrote: [vast snippage] > She Whose Hair Is Red wraps the secret ever tighter in skeins > of words, so that it vanishes as if it never were, and in these > layers of words the secret emerges, shining, so that it is > hidden to those who look, yet revealed to those who take joy > in the unfolding patterns and sounds of words. > > >reminds me of this description of paarfi's style, from _500 years > >after_: "your reader is the one who doesn't rush on to see what > >happens next, but relishes the way the sentences are formed." > > >pamela dean dyer-bennet is my guess here. > > Not my guess here - I think it's Patricia Wrede. Her hair looks sort > of a dark reddish-brown in the photos I've seen. I am not sure what > "wraps the secret ever tighter in skeins of words" refers to, but > there you go. Just for the record, I really do have red hair; Pat has had it from time to time as whim dictates, but it's not a permanent part of her identity. People get us confused ALL THE TIME, however. I snipped too far, but there was a passing remark about people's analogues in THE SUN, THE MOON, AND THE STARS. Bear in mind that the artists' group has five people in it, so a one-to-one mapping is exceedingly improbable. -- Pamela Dean Dyer-Bennet pddb at demesne.com "I will open my heart to a blank page and interview the witnesses." John M. Ford, "Shared World"