(urth) Marcus Aurelius (re)visited

[Jerry Friedman]

> From: David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net>

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>I've begun reading the Meditations, and I find very little in the Meditations themselves that suggest much of a connection to Wolfe in style or substance.
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>However, the introduction stopped me cold. I find several passages to be quite suggestive in the context of Severian the Stoic Emperor. I just wish I could find out who wrote it---but the Gutenberg Project gives no information on that point.
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It's by W. H. D. Rouse.

http://books.google.com/books?id=UawfAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1

I don't know anything about him, but Wikipedia does.

Jerry Friedman