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The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 25 Jul 1999
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Alice Turner — 25 Jul 1999, 10:12

For those wondering about Mrs. B.'s take on other Whorl characters (yes,
this probably ought to be in the other forum, but it's a continuation of
Roy's thread), Rose has many meanings, all positive and having to do with
love and beauty, Chenille is not mentioned, and neither is Orchid, though
Orchis means "a belle," which certainly fits.

-alga

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David Duffy — 26 Jul 1999, 00:33
  follows, by subject match Alice Turner

>     Oddly enough, after your Shakespearean garden post, I looked in
> Bartlett's, which lead me to that poem, but what a severed head watered with
> tears in a pot of basil may mean eludes me.

I seem to remember this is one of the stories in the Decameron.

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