(urth) Wolfe's Puzzles

[David Stockhoff]

Is there a link to "pastor"? Typhon-Pas does lead his flock off Urth.

James Wynn wrote:
>
>> The best I could come up with is that it might be a cool solution if the
>> 9 groups of 4 numbers could be be manipulated into letters to spell out
>> GENE WOLFE (since he often puts wolf[e]s into his stories. But I 
>> couldn't
>> find a way to do that. Perhaps someone else can or come up with some 
>> other
>> good solution.
>
> Ouen is the Scottish form of Eugene. I just did a search and found out 
> someone pointed this out 12 years ago.
>
>> (I reject the explanation of derivation from "Pan"and "pastoral" as a 
>> false,
>> too easily given clue. How is Typhon like a frolicking pipe-playing 
>> goat god?)
>
> Pan is the only god to die within historical time (see Plutarch's 
> Lives), like Pas.
>
> u+16b9
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