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?