(urth) New Wolfe stories

adam at io.com adam at io.com
Fri Aug 20 12:48:00 PDT 2010


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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