# (no subject) *The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 30 Apr 2015* > 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 *30 Apr 2015, 13:27* > Marc Aramini: He has two sons. I am pretty sure some of the (published) difficulty Wolfe had with his older son is reflected in the fictional difficulty Horn has with his oldest son, Sinew, and his monstrous surrogate son, Krait. --- ### Marc Aramini *30 Apr 2015, 13:48 · in reply to Lee* Yes, certainly Short Sun has that autobiographical synchronicity ... the difficulties with one in particular were quite pronounced, though I do not think it was his oldest son. In How I Got 3 Zip Codes I felt the background bio information was worth it since it is basically Gene on the post office (or the real story behind Car Sinister)... but I am not certain the Korean war influence on New Sun or Wolfe's parental struggles on Horn and his family are the type of exegesis I am interested in, as Wolfe seems particularly against the excavations of the biographer... perhaps when enough time has passed, when the things like the disintegration of the relationship between melville and Hawthorne can be speculated upon without injury to either, I would feel more comfortable exploring stuff like that as pertinent to the literature ... >> On Apr 30, 2015 6:27 AM, "Lee" wrote: >> Marc Aramini: He has two sons. > I am pretty sure some of the (published) difficulty Wolfe had with his > older son is reflected > > in the fictional difficulty Horn has with his oldest son, Sinew, and his > monstrous surrogate > > son, Krait. > _______________________________________________ ---