Gene, son of Gene

Tony Ellis asks why I consider it determinable that the narrator of `Fifth Head' is named Gene Wolfe. Well, I've forgotten the fine-grain of my reasoning - it's more than two decades since I read the book. But a quick squiz at the text shows this much (I'm using the UK Quartet pb edition, 1975): p. 51: Father says of Number Five: `his name is the same of mine.' And, a little earlier, Marsch says of the aunt: `She is in reality daughter to an earlier - shall we say "version" - of yourself.' p. 16: `Call me Aunt Jeannine.' I take this to be a femininized form of Gene (Gene-ine). One might wish it had been Eugenia, but still. BTW, is Gene Wolfe's baptismal name (as it were) Eugene? It is given in Clute/Nicholls simply as Gene. [apologies to =mantis= for garbling his own handle in my previous rushed post] As for the terraced folly - beats me. A wild association: while I've never been in New Orleans, the descriptions sets off movie memories of the Vieux Carre. Damien