(urth) Thea and Thecla

[Marc Aramini]

--- On Mon, 1/10/11, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote:

 (Usually
> handled with "Well, of course I didn't know that then, silly
> boy that I was, but the man to whom my father lent his cows
> was the Duke of Zzzz...") It helps that Severian the boy
> lived an isolated, almost monastic life.


You know, this is almost exactly what he says about the huge footsteps down in the man ape/monkey/simian mine, but in true Wolfe style he just says, now I think I know what it was without ever coming out with it explicitly. son of a ...