# 5HC and the letter of the day, alone or in pairs *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 16 Apr 2002* > 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. --- ### Michael Andre-Driussi *16 Apr 2002, 13:38* Alga quoted John Barach and responded: >> Speaking of which, is there some significance to "Marsch"? I note that >> John Eastwind and John Sandwalker in "A Story" are named after >> circumstances connected with their birth. And what is John V. Marsch's >> middle name? > Well, Victor. But V is also the Roman 5. Roman V, as well as being a numeral, was also the vowel "u." For French-speaking citizens of the double planets, W (as in Wolfe) is double-v. For English-speaking citizens of the twin planets, W is double-you. =mantis= Sirius Fiction booklets on Gene Wolfe, John Crowley PEACE INDEXICON update SOON! http://www.siriusfiction.com/ ---