<div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">António Pedro Marques:</font></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">More than once Wolfe has professed to collect ideas and names to use in his<br> </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">work, with no necessary deep connection to their previous meanings.<br>
</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">(In fact, much of his work is doing new things with old stuff; the fact is<br> </font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">that he doesn't invent his materials, it's the use that is novel.)</font></blockquote>
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<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">He's said this, yes. Such deep connections exist, however, and some are intended: Catherine, for example.</font></pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; ">I have wondered if Kim Lee Soong is just a random Korean name or if it is a corruption of Kim Il-sung, president of North Korea. The name means "become the sun," and he indirectly had a major effect on Wolfe's life after all. He's admitted to typos, and he might not have been sure of the spelling.</span></pre>
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">On the other hand, I've never been able to decide what "Severian" is a reference to. It could be the germanic tribe or a gnostic sect or a bishop or a Roman leader. Or maybe he just thought it sounded cool.</font></pre>