# Evan S Barnable *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 27 Jun 2000* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Adam Stephanides *27 Jun 2000, 09:58* > Allan Lloyd wrote: > Some-one asked what the S stands for. Does no-one get the joke? > > Evan S. = evanesce = disappearing from sight, fading, or maybe > ghost-like or even Smoky Wait, it gets better. Crowley actually refers to Smoky's "evanescence" in the passage I quoted explaining the origin of the nickname, and I still didn't get it. So Smoky's "evanescence" is also his Evan-S-ence. And possibly his Evan-essence as well. (I may have to take back what I just said about the narrator being straightforward.) --Adam ---