# Gene Wolfe's gone over my head again... *The SF-Lovers list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 18 Oct 1991* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Curt Wiederhoeft *18 Oct 1991, 19:32* I have heard that with very careful reading, it is possible to deduce the real name of the character "Number Five" in Gene Wolfe's _The Fifth Head of Cerberus_. Either I'm too dense, or it's something French (I can't speak it), but I've read the book twice this week, (and three other times in the past seven years) and I always come up blank. OK, Mr. Wolfe, UNCLE! I've recognized about half a dozen hints and allusions, but that's as far as I can go. If there's someone out there who knows the answer, please contact me. Curt Wiederhoeft curtw at euler.jsc.nasa.gov ---