(urth) Quotations

[Lee Berman]

>Adam Thornton: Cyby is the Gary-Stu insertion of Wolfe into the story (thanks to 
>someone--maybe Borski?  Maybe someone else? at ReaderCon '98 for 
>pointing this out to me).
 
 
I agree. Although...I think it might be more complex. Ultan mentions reading on the
49th floor, overlooking a bed of rosemary; while Wolfe published SotT at age 49 having
wife Rosemary. Might be a bit of WOlfe in Ultan also.
 
I think this is paralleled later. I'm not the only one to find Severian's ostensible Dad, 
Ouen having a physical description which matches Gene WOlfe's at that time. Master and 
apprentice combined. Father and son combined. (I won't mention Dionysus, Zeus The OUtsider 
and Pas at this time. I WON'T!)
 
 
>So of course Ultan is Author-as-Demiurge, and as acknowledged mentor 
>to our actual authorial demiurge.  But then I think of BotNS, in some 
>sense, as "What if Borges had written _The Dying Earth_?"
 
Oh, hell yes. That is just perfect.