Borski and cacogens (Long)

b sharp · 23 May 2006, 00:18 · from 2006-May.txt.gz

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From: bsharporflat at hotmail.com (b sharp)
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 20:18:52 -0400
Subject: (urth) Borski and cacogens (Long)
Message-ID: <BAY103-F11A64248C8844CA627F876D79B0 at phx.gbl>

Mark Millman writes:

>It may be the case that the use of "sibyl" in Long Sun is a deliberate 
>reference to the Cumaean,
>but it seems very unlikely that Wolfe was sowing seeds for Long Sun when he 
>wrote the >Cumaean.

I think some Wolfe worshipers  have the idea that he had Wizard Knight 
mentally complete before he wrote Island of Doctor Death.

But when I mention the connection of the sibyls (sorry@ prev. spelling) in 
Long Sun to BotNS I meant the backward, not forward connection.  That is 
much easier to defend and much less speculative since the previous work can 
be demonstrated to be in existence during the writing of the later work.

For this same reason I am much more prone to noting the connections of BotNS 
to 5th Head of Cerberus than later works.

-bsharp

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