# Vulpine Talos *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 10 May 2006* > 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. --- ### b sharp *10 May 2006, 11:46* Russell Wodell wrote- "On a totally separate note: Has anyone else wondered why Wolfe has never referred to the two most famous vulpine authors: Thomas Wolfe and Virginia Woolf?" I'll use the gentle correction of lupine for vulpine to segue into another physical appearance topic: Which BotNS characters have red hair and is there a connection? I notice Roche, Dr. Talos, Jolenta, Fechin and Daria (and possibly Inire). Roche's hair especially seems to get excessive attention throughout the text for such a minor character, notably in Severian's psilocybic dream in the hetman's house on Lake Diuturna. Dr. Talos' fox-like features are also emphasized and I think Jolenta's hair color may be a mere reflection of his vanity. Talos is a homunculus, created and grown by Baldanders but what was the original source of the cells (or fetus or whatever Baldanders used as source material)? I plan to discuss the Inire-Fechin connection in a later post. -bsharp ---