(urth) Ultan's Library & Borges

[Dave Lebling]

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