(urth) Castleview comments

Jeff Wilson jwilson at io.com
Fri Dec 19 11:33:19 PST 2008


John Smith wrote:
> I used to live near Barrington, Illinois, which is Gene Wolfe's home.   In the nearby town of Fox River Grove, there was a restaurant called "Castleview."  From the restaurant you could see a strange house that was built to resemble a castle, with crenellations and turrets.  I've often wondered if it gave Wolfe the idea for his novel.

I think it likely; numerous features of GW's military college campus 
seem to influence the architechture of the Citadel in the BotNS, as well 
   as the Library and possibly Maison du Chien in 5HC.

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