(urth) Dorcas (was: The mystery of the image of an astronaut cleaned by Rudesind)

[Tony Ellis]

James Wynn wrote (of the Dorcas-grandmother puzzle):

> I remember when the grandmother theory was posed. There was no more
> textual evidence for it than this Hairy Inire theory. The only reason
> it's not sitting on the "Half-baked Theory" pile today is because Wolfe
> uncharacteristically confirmed it to a questioner.

and

>This "transparent" puzzle was only understood some 20 years after the
>book was published.  I'm sure you would have been on the list explaining
>it a week after the SotT was published if you had had the opportunity.

Where are you getting this from? The Dorcas-is-Sev's-grandmother
puzzle was understood by some of us as soon as we read Citadel of the
Autarch back in the 1980s.