# Blue = Urth, didn't Wolfe say it wasn't?

*The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 09 Jan 2002*

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### Spectacled Bear
*09 Jan 2002, 09:55*

> At 05:24 2002-01-09, Christopher R. Culver wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> With all the talk of the ol' "Blue is Urth, Green is Lune" hypothesis,
> am I the only one who has a foggy recollection that Gene Wolfe expressly
> denied this in an interview just before the release of ON BLUE'S WATERS?

I recall that he explicitly denied that Blue and Green were
St Anne and St Croix. Could that be what you are thinking of?

Spectacled Bear.

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