# Hethor's Poppet *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 19 Jun 2010* > 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. --- ### Jack Smith *19 Jun 2010, 18:47* I don't know if Agia is a robot or Hethor's paracoita, but here's a video of Megan Fox with a mannequin that's creepy enough to be Hethor's poppet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiPTa1wod_0 ``` Best wishes, Jack ``` --- ### Lee Berman *21 Jun 2010, 02:48 · follows Jack Smith* I find Gene Wolfe's work to often be veiled but detectably autobiographical. I must guess references to violet-eyed beauties were inspired by Elizabeth Taylor, famous for that color eyes, and a teen movie star only a year younger than Mr.Wolfe. I can't imagine Agia as a paracoita; she is small but not violet-eyed plus she is a hard-ass and hard-headed (heh heh) stubborn, to boot. Not good characteristics in a sex toy. Thecla has violet eyes but is hardly small or doll-like; she is even described as having some masculine qualities. I propose Phaedria, from 5HoC as the most similar Wolfe character to the paracoita. She has the violet eyes and is presented as rather poppet- doll-like, feminine and on the compliant side. Moreover Borski has proposed that Hethor is a shape-changer. Perhaps a Shadow Child or Annese decided to board the ship and travel to another universe (i.e. another Wolfe story) taking along Phaedria, or more likely, a clone of her, as a pleasant companion. Surely Gene Wolfe had similar dreams in his youth. ---