(urth) Someday they'll want us

[Gerry Quinn]

I understood that.  I agree that 'Gene Wolfe' can very well be the name of the narrator of 'Fifth Head' (same applies to 'Procreation') and I wasn't disagreeing with you... I was alluding to the fact that Wolfe controls everying in his books.  He is known to edit multi-volume works as a whole, going back to change things in the early pages that might disagree with his grand scheme - I was only making a reference to this, not to anything that you said.

- Gerry Quinn

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  I wrote:

  > After all, "Gene Wolfe" wants to make sure that all
  > the other Gene Wolfes that follow him are not only
  > Gene-etic (a pun I suspect Wolfe had in mind, given
  > the focus on his name throughout the story: we think
  > he's only talking about wolves in stories, but I suspect
  > he's also talking about genes) replicas but also replicas
  > in every other way, especially education and upbringing. 
  > Of course, he can't control *everything* but as many
  > things as he can control he is controlling in order to
  > make sure that every cloned son is as like him as
  > possible until he/they finally achieve/s his/their full potential.  

  Gerry responds:

  > Controlling everything?  I suppose you could consider writing
  > a book that way...

  Sorry for the confusion.  I put "Gene Wolfe" in quotation marks because I wasn't referring to the *author* of Fifth Head of Cerberus, but to the character.  Number 5's name (and the name of his father) is "Gene Wolfe," according to Borski's essay, and I think he's right.  So the "Gene Wolfe" I was referring to was Maitre.


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