I found a channel that uploaded an interview with Gene Wolfe about his writing, influences, and other stuff. It was from before Urth of the New Sun was published. He says that the story about the student and his son was based on Theseus and (which I totally missed) that "Theseus" got confused with "Thesis" and "minotaur" with "monitor" (IE civil war ironclads) which explains the odd ways it changed. . Also he didn't use a big outline or anything while writing BotNS, he kept all the connections in his head. Really fascinating.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxaASGcga7oPic basically unrelated
