Zelazny   Youre very welcome   You may also be interested in my theory closelyheld but fragile that the Belle Epoque references while scribing the Second Pattern taken in context of Merlins proxy encounter with Deirdre some books later mean that the main subject Corwin was actually thinking about during his act of cosmogony was Deirdre though hes too shy to tell us outright allusive creature that he is That means that theres a huge amount about Corwins history on Earth that no ones telling us of course big surprise but the Deirdre encounter means that regardless This is one of the things that pleases and amazes me most about Zelazny that momentary events can have implications that change everything  Like Dworkins oneline offhand mention that by the by he already destroyed and recreated the Pattern once