New Wolfe stories

adam at io.com · 20 Aug 2010, 19:48 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: adam at io.com (adam at io.com)
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:48:00 -0500
Subject: (urth) New Wolfe stories
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On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:53:50 -0500, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:

> I responded "Really???". Then he immediately went into a story [cutting 
> me off IMO] about how how he has messed up with naming in the past 
> because the main character in The Other Dead Man was named Will Ries. In

> short, he didn't explicitly answer my question.

I have a Theory.

Wolfe is an Aggie.

Texas A&M and Rice University have no love lost between them.

The founder of Rice was one William Marsh Rice.

So maybe Wolfe just likes naming villains after him and associating them
somehow with water, for the Marsh effect.

Adam

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