Quotations

Lee Berman · 01 Jan 2011, 22:34 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 17:34:46 -0500
Subject: (urth) Quotations
Message-ID: <SNT123-W6FE2B7F9C541F9D69A679CF050 at phx.gbl>

>Adam Thornton: Cyby is the Gary-Stu insertion of Wolfe into the story (thanks to 
>someone--maybe Borski?  Maybe someone else? at ReaderCon '98 for 
>pointing this out to me).

I agree. Although...I think it might be more complex. Ultan mentions reading on the
49th floor, overlooking a bed of rosemary; while Wolfe published SotT at age 49 having
wife Rosemary. Might be a bit of WOlfe in Ultan also.

I think this is paralleled later. I'm not the only one to find Severian's ostensible Dad, 
Ouen having a physical description which matches Gene WOlfe's at that time. Master and 
apprentice combined. Father and son combined. (I won't mention Dionysus, Zeus The OUtsider 
and Pas at this time. I WON'T!)

>So of course Ultan is Author-as-Demiurge, and as acknowledged mentor 
>to our actual authorial demiurge.  But then I think of BotNS, in some 
>sense, as "What if Borges had written _The Dying Earth_?"

Oh, hell yes. That is just perfect.

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