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"Paul" maybe a reference to Paul the protagonist of 'The Hero as Werwolf'? Or maybe both are references to some ur-Paul I'm not aware of... -- Mo March 30, 2011, at 10:29 AM

Wolfe uses Paul references quite a lot in his stories. There's also 'Paul's Treehouse', 'Civis Laputus Sum', and 'The Changeling'. In four of them Paul is victimized in some way: a man eaten by a werewolf, a boy trapped in a treehouse by a riot, a murder victim (with a name that anagrams to 'Tarsus'), and a man caught in a foot-trap. 'The Changeling' has a Paul who thinks he can throw a stone across a river but who falls short. I think they all refer to aspect of the famous early Christian convert and martyr Paul of Tarsus. -- DaveTallman March 31, 2011, at 10:55 AM

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