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[Gerry Quinn]

From: Gwern Branwen

http://jdbookreview.com/gene-wolfe-no-comparison/ interview:

'Gene Wolfe easily admits to being a supernatural being.  How else to 
explain his famous comment that editor Damon Knight, whose ORBIT series of 
anthologies helped launch Wolfe’s career, “grew me from a bean…”?'

Hmm, if we are to assume it was a black bean, it would not make him the 
nicest kind of supernatural being!  [I'm assuming that the story of the 
black beans cast into the sea in BotNS is meant to refer to the origin of 
Abaia, Erebus and the rest.]

- Gerry Quinn