<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Admittedly, I'm not much of a writer, but if I gave my wife a knife to kill herself and later ate her brain to gain her memories, I think she'd just as soon not have me put her in the story. <br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Jan 5, 2011, at 9:37 AM, DAVID STOCKHOFF <<a href="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net">dstockhoff@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Rosemary Wolfe?<br><br>--- On <b>Wed, 1/5/11, Lee Berman <i><<a href="mailto:severiansola@hotmail.com">severiansola@hotmail.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Lee Berman <<a href="mailto:severiansola@hotmail.com">severiansola@hotmail.com</a>><br>Subject: (urth) Speaking of Art..<br>To: <a href="mailto:urth@lists.urth.net"><a href="mailto:urth@lists.urth.net">urth@lists.urth.net</a></a><br>Date: Wednesday, January 5, 2011, 9:04 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail"><br><br>>aaron: Have any of you guys or girls ever seen a picture of Gene Wolfe as a young<br>>man? I have (saw a wedding photo on Google books a couple years back), and<br>>it seems to me that his description of Severian could've just as easily<br>>described himself as a young man. It would also be another case of Wolfe<br>>placing himself in one of his stories.<br> <br>I think you are right. Without having seen that photo, I've always
assumed Severian<br>resembled Gene Wolfe as a younger guy. Supporting evidence is that Number Five (whose<br>name is Gene Wolfe) resembles Severian. (also, Phaedria from 5HoC resembles Thecla in <br>hair color, widow's peak and violet eyes; who might she "be"?). <br>_______________________________________________<br>Urth Mailing List<br>To post, write <a ymailto="mailto:urth@urth.net" href="/mc/compose?to=urth@urth.net"><a href="mailto:urth@urth.net">urth@urth.net</a></a><br>Subscription/information: <a href="http://www.urth.net" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.urth.net">http://www.urth.net</a></a><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Urth Mailing List</span><br><span>To post, write <a href="mailto:urth@urth.net"><a href="mailto:urth@urth.net">urth@urth.net</a></a></span><br><span>Subscription/information: <a href="http://www.urth.net"><a href="http://www.urth.net">http://www.urth.net</a></a></span></div></blockquote></body></html>