From: John Bishop <jbishop@ch.hp.com>
Subject: (urth) re: Ernie Cotha [Digest urth.v002.n025]
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 15:33:00 


[Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other works]


  I haven't read that story, but given the Catholic
  connection Ron's post describes, I instantly
  thought thusly:

     Ernie Cotha ->
     
           "Golgotha", the hill where
           Christ was crucified ->
           
                 translated sometimes as
                 "Place of the Skull"
                  
   Was Ernie a Colonel?  Col. Cotha would be a dead
   giveaway.

        -John