# names for Nigel *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 10 May 2003* > 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 *10 May 2003, 14:28* Wow, Nigel, you have suddenly burst into high activity! > Nigel Price wrote: > I look forward, when I get to read the printed version of the story, to > seeing how all the names are spelled. All my efforts in this and my previous > message are just "best guesses" based on what I heard on the dramatised > reading. Is it "Baden" or "Badden"? And how is the shark-man's name spelled? > "Hange"? > > And talking of names, I realise that I never discussed the name of the > missionary on the island. His full name is - from memory - something like > "Mervyn Robertson" or "Robinson", but he doesn't like his given name and > prefers to be called "Rob". As some of the other names in the story are > clearly significant, I wondered what Rob's name might indicate. I can help you there: Baden Rev. Rob Robbins (his first name is really "Mervyn") Annys (witch in L.A.) Julius R. Christmas (Mary's dad) Hanga Langi, the native girlfriend (seems to be the pet form of "Langitokoua" which is also used in the text) Also a quick note on unrelated matters: the current Lexicon auctions (Y8, Y9, Y10, Y11, and Y12) will be ending tomorrow. When these are gone there will be only seven left. =mantis= Sirius Fiction booklets on Gene Wolfe, John Crowley http://www.siriusfiction.com/ eBay Auctions http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=mr.sirius ---