# Greening, was Names for Green Men *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 05 Jan 2001* > 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. --- ### Jeff Wilson *05 Jan 2001, 13:31* > From: Michael Andre-Driussi > Weeell . . . it ain't exactly what you are looking for, but here's "Durra." > > My rationale is that "green" comes from an Indo-European root that also > gives rise to "grass." And the green man has a grassy smell. And durra is > a type of grass. Hey, I'll take it! Good thinking, and very appropriate. Any hints on pronunciation? I recall you recently mentioned having yet to ponder how Severian might go about bringing Ushas into full bloom, but isn't that something that would follow without his help, once the New Sun has come? The four grassy hills he returns to find after his stint as Apu Punchau seem to be good evidence his work is done. Or since we are talking about the Green Man/Men, does he need to do something personally to introduce Anthroposophy so that the potential to engineer their symbiotic algae remains? ``` Jeff Wilson How Am I Posting? 1-800-555-6789 "If your SecOp can see you, so can the enemy." -Cpt Law ``` ---