# Harry S Truman *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, 23:13* >> David Duffy wrote: >> In fact, it seems more than just plausible that Smoky's middle initial >> doesn't stand for anything--remember that he wears "A Suit of >> Truman's" to be married in and that the 'S' in Harry S. Truman is >> without further signification. I think that's the solution to >> the middle initial mystery. > Truman's name is actually written Harry S Truman -- not having the book here, > what is the exact punctuation? If you're asking about the punctuation of Smoky's legal name, he does put a period after the S. Truman's name, on the other hand, appears as "Harry Truman," no S at all ("A Suit of Truman's," I, 4, p. 59 of Bantam TPB), although the S appears in the suit's monogram. Come to think of it, it strikes me as very unusual to refer to Truman as "Harry Truman"; either "Truman" or "Harry S Truman" are far more common. It's as if Crowley is emphasizing the "S" by omission. Okay, so who's going to do the article on "The Letter 'S' in John Crowley's _Little, Big_"? --Adam ---