# Samuel R. Delany *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 29 Jan 2003* > 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. --- ### Josh Geller *29 Jan 2003, 16:26* > On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Michael Andre-Driussi wrote: > I mentioned the fiction of Samuel R. Delany before, and since then it has > occured to me that it would be a real scream if Green's hidden/encrypted > name were decoded as "William Dhalgren." That reminds me. Gene Wolfe told me once that Master Ultan was or represented Borges. I have been wondering for a while now if there might not be some other writers encoded in there, and specifically if Baldanders might not be or represent Chip Delany. The notion just won't go away. . . --- ### Dan'l Danehy-Oakes *29 Jan 2003, 20:02 · follows Josh Geller* Josh Geller wrote... > Gene Wolfe told me once that Master Ultan was or represented Borges. > > I have been wondering for a while now if there might not be > some other writers encoded in there, and specifically if > Baldanders might not be or represent Chip Delany. The notion > just won't go away. H'mmmm. "Baldanders" is _from_ Borges, if I recall correctly ... and there's nothing about him that particularly makes me think of Delany, his fiction or his characters ... Though obviously there's more than Borges to Baldanders; the Doctor reminds us, not very obliquely, that we should also be thinking Frankenstein. So what about Baldanders makes you think Delany? ---