DOORS: malicapata The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 21 Jan 2003 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/3782 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. ============================================================================== James Jordan — 21 Jan 2003, 03:50 > I'm not sure how to parse the word. "Mali-" can be "evil" or "apple"; > "-capata," I don't know . . . looks like past tense? "He took the apple"? > "Evil got him"? > > =mantis= Capata might be a Wolfean spin on _caput_ rather than on _capio_, maybe something like "evil/sickness in the head"? I'm not rereading the book, and don't recall where it occurs and in what context. Nutria ------------------------------------------------------------------------------