Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 08:43:05 -0500
From: James Jordan 
Subject: Re: (urth) A Sad Loss

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At 05:16 AM 4/18/2002, you wrote:
>Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
> >The dedication to THE FIFTH HEAD OF CERBERUS reads:
> >
> >To Damon Knight, who
> >one well-remembered
> >June evening in 1966 grew me from a bean.
> >
> >I have no idea what that means, but.
>
>Hmm. There used to be some sort of in-joke in SF publishing circles that
>publishers (or editors?) didn't discover their writers, but grew them from
>magic beans. Please don't ask me where I got this from, because I've been
>racking my brains trying to remember ever since I saw your post. It feels
>like I read it in an essay or a foreword somewhere, and I can conjure up
>almost the exact sentence, but not the source.
>
>On another level, if you're right about Number Five's family name being more
>than just a pun, then it's hard not to also see this dedication as a joking
>comparison of the Knight-Wolfe relationship to that of father and son in
>5HC.  After all, Maitre grows little Gene Wolfes from seed too.

I believe the root meaning is that early on Wolfe attended one or more of 
Knight's SF Writers Workshops.

Nutria


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At 05:16 AM 4/18/2002, you wrote:

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:

>The dedication to THE FIFTH HEAD OF CERBERUS reads:

>

>To Damon Knight, who

>one well-remembered

>June evening in 1966 grew me from a bean.

>

>I have no idea what that means, but.


Hmm. There used to be some sort of in-joke in SF publishing circles
that

publishers (or editors?) didn't discover their writers, but grew them
from

magic beans. Please don't ask me where I got this from, because I've
been

racking my brains trying to remember ever since I saw your post. It
feels

like I read it in an essay or a foreword somewhere, and I can conjure
up

almost the exact sentence, but not the source.


On another level, if you're right about Number Five's family name being
more

than just a pun, then it's hard not to also see this dedication as a
joking

comparison of the Knight-Wolfe relationship to that of father and son
in

5HC.  After all, Maitre grows little Gene Wolfes from seed
too.


I believe the root meaning is that early on Wolfe attended one or more of
Knight's SF Writers Workshops.


Nutria



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