# Speaking of Art.. *The Urth list — 4 messages, 3 voices, 05 Jan 2011* > 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. --- ### Lee Berman *05 Jan 2011, 14:04* > aaron: Have any of you guys or girls ever seen a picture of Gene Wolfe as a young > man? I have (saw a wedding photo on Google books a couple years back), and > it seems to me that his description of Severian could've just as easily > described himself as a young man. It would also be another case of Wolfe > placing himself in one of his stories. I think you are right. Without having seen that photo, I've always assumed Severian resembled Gene Wolfe as a younger guy. Supporting evidence is that Number Five (whose name is Gene Wolfe) resembles Severian. (also, Phaedria from 5HoC resembles Thecla in hair color, widow's peak and violet eyes; who might she "be"?). --- ### DAVID STOCKHOFF *05 Jan 2011, 15:37 · in reply to Lee Berman* Rosemary Wolfe? --- On Wed, 1/5/11, Lee Berman wrote: > From: Lee Berman > Subject: (urth) Speaking of Art.. > To: urth at lists.urth.net > Date: Wednesday, January 5, 2011, 9:04 AM > aaron: Have any of you guys or girls ever seen a picture of Gene Wolfe as a young > man? I have (saw a wedding photo on Google books a couple years back), and > it seems to me that his description of Severian could've just as easily > described himself as a young man. It would also be another case of Wolfe > placing himself in one of his stories. I think you are right. Without having seen that photo, I've always assumed Severian resembled Gene Wolfe as a younger guy. Supporting evidence is that Number Five (whose name is Gene Wolfe) resembles Severian. (also, Phaedria from 5HoC resembles Thecla in hair color, widow's peak and violet eyes; who might she "be"?). ??? ???????? ?????? ??? ? --- ### Lane Haygood *05 Jan 2011, 15:55 · in reply to DAVID STOCKHOFF* Admittedly, I'm not much of a writer, but if I gave my wife a knife to kill herself and later ate her brain to gain her memories, I think she'd just as soon not have me put her in the story. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 5, 2011, at 9:37 AM, DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote: > Rosemary Wolfe? > > --- On Wed, 1/5/11, Lee Berman wrote: > > From: Lee Berman > Subject: (urth) Speaking of Art.. > To: urth at lists.urth.net > Date: Wednesday, January 5, 2011, 9:04 AM >> aaron: Have any of you guys or girls ever seen a picture of Gene Wolfe as a young >> man? I have (saw a wedding photo on Google books a couple years back), and >> it seems to me that his description of Severian could've just as easily >> described himself as a young man. It would also be another case of Wolfe >> placing himself in one of his stories. > I think you are right. Without having seen that photo, I've always assumed Severian > resembled Gene Wolfe as a younger guy. Supporting evidence is that Number Five (whose > name is Gene Wolfe) resembles Severian. (also, Phaedria from 5HoC resembles Thecla in > hair color, widow's peak and violet eyes; who might she "be"?). > _______________________________________________ --- ### DAVID STOCKHOFF *05 Jan 2011, 16:38 · in reply to Lane Haygood* But you must also admit that, since you're not a writer, you are ipso facto not married to a writer's wife, and therefore you have no idea what a writer's wife will put up with. Unless you ARE, in which case, well, we don't need to know about that. :0 --- On Wed, 1/5/11, Lane Haygood wrote: From: Lane Haygood Subject: Re: (urth) Speaking of Art.. To: "The Urth Mailing List" Date: Wednesday, January 5, 2011, 10:55 AM Admittedly, I'm not much of a writer, but if I gave my wife a knife to kill herself and later ate her brain to gain her memories, I think she'd just as soon not have me put her in the story. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 5, 2011, at 9:37 AM, DAVID STOCKHOFF wrote: Rosemary Wolfe? --- On Wed, 1/5/11, Lee Berman wrote: > From: Lee Berman > Subject: (urth) Speaking of Art.. > To: urth at lists.urth.net > Date: Wednesday, January 5, 2011, 9:04 AM > aaron: Have any of you guys or girls ever seen a picture of Gene Wolfe as a young > man? I have (saw a wedding photo on Google books a couple years back), and > it seems to me that his description of Severian could've just as easily > described himself as a young man. It would also be another case of Wolfe > placing himself in one of his stories. I think you are right. Without having seen that photo, I've always assumed Severian resembled Gene Wolfe as a younger guy. Supporting evidence is that Number Five (whose name is Gene Wolfe) resembles Severian. (also, Phaedria from 5HoC resembles Thecla in hair color, widow's peak and violet eyes; who might she "be"?). ??? ???????? ?????? ??? ? ---