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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Matar. Arabic for rain or airport. Trivigaunti pterotrooper. She comes down like rain and is from a flying vehicle prion…
01 Aug 1998, 20:29
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Murtagon. All I could find fitting this is martagon, also mortegon, martagan, and martigon. With all those alternative spellings, it's probable that…
31 Jul 1998, 22:35
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Kalan. Any species of the genus Calanus (Kalanus) of the family Calanidae (Kalanidae). Red marine copepods of the northern oceans that are a major f…
31 Jul 1998, 22:08
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). I've also found St. Winnoc (or Winoc) of Wormhoult. He died in 717. He is the patron of millers. He has a Breton name, too, and it is also found in…
31 Jul 1998, 11:36
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Nizam. Arabic for system. Trivigaunti private who takes in Tick for a while. prion…
31 Jul 1998, 10:29
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Matar. Arabic for rain. Trivigaunti pterotrooper. She comes down like rain. prion…
31 Jul 1998, 10:24
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Lijam. Arabic for bridle. Trivigaunte's Minister of War. prion…
31 Jul 1998, 10:21
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Ratel. Any species of genus Mellivora (honey-eater), especially Mellivora capensis. M. capensis is also called the honey badger. It has a grey top …
31 Jul 1998, 10:06
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). I think I've located the name Beuzec. It's a Breton name that is also spelled Buzeg, Budog, and Budoc. Saint Budoc was born in 540 and died in 618. …
30 Jul 1998, 23:07
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Quetzal. Plural quetzals or quetzales. Also spelled quezal or quesal. From the Nahuatl word quetzalli (large bright tail feather). A species (Phar…
30 Jul 1998, 22:48
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Paca. Any species of genus Cuniculus of family Dasyproctidae, especially the paca (Cuniculus paca). Cuniculus is Latin for rabbit or burrow. Relate…
30 Jul 1998, 11:11
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Olive. Any plant of genus Olea, especially Olea europaea. Produce olives. Also a first name. A sleeper. Oont. From Hindi uut, from Sanskrit ustr…
29 Jul 1998, 22:55
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Nettle. Any species of prickly or stinging plants of genus Urtica or family Urticaceae. Horn's wife. Coauthor of the Book of Silk. Newt. A small …
29 Jul 1998, 22:17
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Macaque. Any species of genus Macaca. Monkeys that usually have short tails and long feet. Boy at the palaestra. Magnesia. Any one of several for…
29 Jul 1998, 22:07
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Lemur. Latin for ghost, spirit. The lemur was given this name because it is nocturnal. The animal is any species of family Lemuridae, especially th…
29 Jul 1998, 16:27
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Feist. Also fist or fice. Shortening of fisting dog (that is, a dog that breaks wind). A small mongrel, cur. Also a person with a bad temper, or a…
29 Jul 1998, 15:17
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Kalan. Any species of the genus Calanus (Kalanus) of the family Calanidae (Kalanidae). Red marine copepods of the northern oceans that are a major f…
29 Jul 1998, 15:12
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Jerboa. Any species in family Dipodidae. Desert-dwelling rodents with long legs and feet used for jumping long distances. Long thin, sometimes furr…
29 Jul 1998, 13:27
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Incus. Plural incuses or incudes. Latin for anvil. The middle bone in a chain of bones in the ears of mammals (the others are malleus (plural malle…
29 Jul 1998, 13:04
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Hadale. Arabic word that I don't know. In French, it is the feminine form of the adjective meaning hellish, abysmal (from Hades) which usually is us…
29 Jul 1998, 12:54
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Galago. Any species in the Galago genus of the Lorisidae family , especially Lorisidae Galago senegalensis, also called the lesser bush baby. It's r…
29 Jul 1998, 10:36
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Feather. A light shaft with many thin barbs protruding from it along one (imaginary) plane that contains the shaft. Biological, used by birds, usual…
29 Jul 1998, 08:27
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Elodia. Probably Elodea, a genus of water herbs in the family Hydrocharitaceae. Gelada's former mistress, so the name is probably meant to be unsavo…
29 Jul 1998, 08:19
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Echidna. Greek for viper or adder. Name of a mythological monster. She was described as a creature that is part beautiful woman, and part serpent. …
28 Jul 1998, 17:31
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Dreoilin. Irish for wren. Iolar's favorite daughter. In irish it is spelled with an accute accent mark over the second i. Dace. From Latin darsus.…
28 Jul 1998, 16:48
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Cassava. One of the species of the genus Manihot. Roots used to make tapioca. An old woman on Sun Street. Cavy. A species in the family Caviidae,…
28 Jul 1998, 16:27
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Continuing the name list: Bittersweet. The poisonous plant in Eurasia (Solanum dulcamara). A weed with purple flowers and red berries. It has a bi…
28 Jul 1998, 14:42
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Continuing the name list: Bittersweet. The poisonous plant in Eurasia (Solanum dulcamara). A weed with purple flowers and red berries. It has a bi…
28 Jul 1998, 14:41
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Continuing the name list: Bittersweet. The poisonous plant in Eurasia (Solanum dulcamara). A weed with purple flowers and red berries. It has a bi…
28 Jul 1998, 14:35
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Continuing the name list: Babirousa. Also babirusa or babirussa. (Babyrousa babyrussa is the scientific name). Malay, from baabii (hog) and ruusa …
28 Jul 1998, 12:44
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). It's fairly clear in the Long Sun books that the names of the characters are meant to have some allusional significance, like the Councillors having t…
28 Jul 1998, 11:58
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). You're completely right, of course. I was going on memory in the letter. I still think that this would be enough time for him to get to that positio…
21 Jul 1998, 00:39
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Yes, but why did David go to the capital? In the capital there would be the possibility of a government position, such as an intelligence officer. H…
20 Jul 1998, 21:56
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). I can think of a number of ways that a genealogical line of Autarchs could fail. The Autarch's children may not be near enough to eat his brain befor…
20 Jul 1998, 17:24
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Concerning the geography discussion, Michael Andre-Driussi's (mantis') _Lexicon Urthus_ has an excellent map illustrating my points in the previous po…
20 Jul 1998, 03:51
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Yet another piece of evidence that Aunt Jeannine in _The Fith Head of Cerberus_ is really an abo impostor. On page 52 of the Orb edition, No. 5 descr…
20 Jul 1998, 03:49
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Wheww. How's that for a bundle of citations? I don't remember Wolfe ever saying this, and it doesn't appear possible (see below). Vodalus was talki…
20 Jul 1998, 03:35
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). It seems unlikely that the cards would have been adopted by the cargo after the voyage for use as currency. They would have no reason to accept as va…
20 Jul 1998, 00:08
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). I just wanted to put down a few minor miscellaneous points I have in my mind about _The Fifth Head of Cerberus_. Today I saw a show about Neanderthal…
20 Jul 1998, 00:05
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). I think that in _The Fifth Head of Cerberus_ the junior officer who reviews VRT's case is actually David. First, David is known to have gone to the c…
19 Jul 1998, 23:39
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). I don't agree with the theory that the first Autarchs made Urth self-sufficient by seeding the planet with animals. Typhon, according to the doctor w…
16 Jul 1998, 22:53
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). This seems to fit, but how does it fit in that he originally thought that she stabbed Sanderson? He didn't just decide to leave him, he thought that …
16 Jul 1998, 22:38
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). When I saw that Robert Borski had written a post about "Cherry Jubilee" I read the story for the first time so I would be able to understand his discu…
16 Jul 1998, 22:35
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note: forwarded msg attached. Oops. Looks like I sent this to the Urth list first.…
15 Jul 1998, 17:22
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Rostrum, I'm always happy to elaborate. All the gods/monsters from Greek mythology which I said had names that aren't Greek words had their names bor…
15 Jul 1998, 17:15
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Thanks, Dan. I also found a large site at www.mygale.org/~lemonon/Teur/teur.html, if anyone's interested in seeing it. prion…
15 Jul 1998, 12:03
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). What is the address of the French page about Gene Wolfe? I think it's named something like La Teur du Second Soleil. Are there any other sites like …
14 Jul 1998, 12:22
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note: forwarded msg attached.…
14 Jul 1998, 01:15
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Doesn't anyone want to discuss "Tracking Song"? Oh, well. Well, anyway, after I recently reread it it seemed to me that every mammal is an anthropom…
14 Jul 1998, 00:12
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This is Sean Whalen (prion). Did Robert Borski have a theory that some of the prostitutes in the Maison du chien in tFHoC were aborigines? Well, when I reread the book, the first…
13 Jul 1998, 23:53
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