<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Subject: Re: (urth) New Wolfe stories<br><br>>> I responded "Really???". Then he immediately went into a story [cutting <br>>> me off IMO] about how how he has messed up with naming in the past <br>>> because the main character in The Other Dead Man was named Will Ries. In<br>>><br>>> short, he didn't explicitly answer my question.<br><br>>I have a Theory.<br>><br>>Wolfe is an Aggie.<br>><br>>Texas A&M and Rice University have no love lost between them.<br>><br>>The founder of Rice was one William Marsh Rice.<br>><br>>So maybe Wolfe just likes naming villains after him and associating them<br>>somehow
with water, for the Marsh effect.<br><br>Isn't Reese a "good-guy" by the end of AEG?<br></div></div>
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