Ultan's Library & Borges

Dave Lebling · 09 Apr 2009, 00:08 · from 2009-April.txt.gz

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From: dlebling at hyraxes.com (Dave Lebling)
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:08:26 -0400
Subject: (urth) Ultan's Library & Borges
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I thought it was generally agreed that though Severian may be a stand-in 
for Wolfe, Ultan's assistant Cyby was Wolfe's stand-in in the novel:

"... a stocky, very erect man of forty or so with a flat, pale face. ... 
Cyby had a high, square forehead, from which his graying hair was in 
retreat. It made his face seem small and a trifle babyish..."

Remember that Shadow of the Torturer was published in 1980, so it was 
written when Wolfe was "forty or so."

-- Dave Lebling, aka vizcacha

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