# Werwolf *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 04 Mar 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. --- ### Jason Ingram *04 Mar 2003, 00:24* The spelling calls attention to at least one missing "e"; this may be sufficient motive even if Wolfe had more in mind. Sepia > From: "Fernando Q. Gouvea" >> - Does anyone know why Wolfe chose the spelling "Werwolf"? --- ### James Jordan *04 Mar 2003, 14:20 · follows Jason Ingram* > At 06:24 PM 3/3/2003, you wrote: > The spelling calls attention to at least one missing "e"; this may be > sufficient motive even if Wolfe had more in mind. > > Sepia Ah, that may be on the mark. We might have read "Were-Wolfe," which would be in character for all of Wolfe's lupine stories, which are "about" him one way or another. So dropping both "e"s is a hint, of some sort. Maybe to call attention to it, as you say, so that we get the idea the the Hero is a version of Wolfe himself. Nutria ---