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alga,
Thanks for the info on which description of Scylla, Wolfe based his character on. The only thing that drew me to the first description was the line "Other accounts say that she was changed into a lark by the gods and her father into a hawk." relating to Scylla residing in Oreb.
Endy, that may have struck Wolfe too. He uses the same references we do ;-)
-alga
*This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.