Dragaera

funny the things you catch

David Silberstein davids at kithrup.com
Wed Sep 25 16:34:15 PDT 2002

On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 pddb at demesne.com wrote:

>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.
>> 

[snips]
 
>> >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.

Well, d'oh!  Sorry about that.  :-)

Do the rest of the guesses accord with your perceptions?
Who is the potential ringer, and why?