# A Cabin on the Coast *The Urth list — 4 messages, 4 voices, 16 Jan 2008* > 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. --- ### Michael Straight *16 Jan 2008, 19:15* Anyone else think that Pirate Freedom can be seen as an expanded version of the Wolfe short story "A Cabin on the Coast"? -- Rostrum --- ### Matthew Groves *16 Jan 2008, 21:41 · in reply to Michael Straight* Yes, absolutely. I think one source of their resemblance, and the similarity of other Wolfe stories, is due to Wolfe's absorption of Robert Graves's The White Goddess. > On 1/16/08, Michael Straight wrote: > Anyone else think that Pirate Freedom can be seen as an expanded > version of the Wolfe short story "A Cabin on the Coast"? > > -- Rostrum --- ### Matthew Keeley *16 Jan 2008, 23:04 · in reply to Matthew Groves* I saw your "Interpreting Wolfe" list on Amazon; I see you put The White Goddess on that too. It's one of those things I've been meaning to read for a while, and learning it's influenced by Wolfe makes me want to read it more. In a similar vein, is there any evidence that Wolfe has read Frazer's Golden Bough (Or at least some of it - The whole work is 13 volumes or something ridiculous like that). Not to sound silly, but do you think you could elaborate just a bit on the Frazer-Wolfe connection in Pirate Freedom? I don't know much about Graves, and there wasn't anything in PF that just screamed "White Goddess" to me, a layman. I suppose I could see some influence in New Sun, but PF, not so much. I don't doubt it's there, it's just I don't know enough to see it. -Matt --- ### Roy C. Lackey *17 Jan 2008, 05:45 · follows Matthew Keeley* > Matthew Groves wrote: > Yes, absolutely. I think one source of their resemblance, and the > similarity of other Wolfe stories, is due to Wolfe's absorption of > Robert Graves's The White Goddess. I vowed at the time Marc Aramini posted what Wolfe really had to say about _The White Goddess_ that I was going to post a link to that post every time someone raised the specter of _The White Goddess_ and its supposed influence on Wolfe. I can't seem to find it now, so it must be in the year of lost archives. Could you send it again, Marc? -Roy ---