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  "thread": {
    "id": 4940,
    "subject": "Chris's last name",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "2007-11-29T07:43:54+00:00",
    "last": "2007-11-29T07:43:54+00:00"
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    {
      "message_id": "<39ed084f0711282343q546f46cey1cdf7039e0ee3654@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Matthew Groves",
        "address": "matthewalangroves at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2007-11-29T07:43:54+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Chris's last name",
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          "text": "I have not been able to determine Chris's last name either.  We are\ntold that it is long and difficult, and hard to pronounce, and that a\nsignalman would abbreviate it.  Then we are told that Fr. Chris finds\na short bio of \"Capt. Cos or Kruss, believed to have been Dutch or\nGerman,\" and that he believes he is \"Capt. Cos\".  However he did not\nmake the connection to himself until he red that Cos made his wife his\nchief lieutenant.\n\nIt is possible to infer from this that Capt. Chris's last name might\nhave been abbreviated \"Cos\" or \"Krus\" by a signalman; however, in that\ncase it seems to me that Fr. Chris would have been familiar with that\nabbreviation, and hence would not have needed the detail about his\nwife being chief lieutenant to connect the bio to himself.  Why Chris\nwould have been mistaken for Dutch or German is a mystery to me, since\nhe told Capt. Burt he was from Jersey (tee-hee), and told someone else\nhe was Italian, or rather Sicilian.\n\nWe have every reason to assume Chris's name is Sicilian.  He's from\nNew Jersey -- maybe from Newark since he renames a ship \"New Ark\"\n(tee-hee again).  On the chance that he might be from a real-life\nNewark mafia family, I looked on Wikipedia and found that the big\nfamily there is the DeCavalcante crime family.  That's pretty long,\nbut not too difficult to spell and not at all difficult to pronounce.\n(It's also not at all apt to be abbreviated \"Cos\" or \"Krus\".)\n\nAll of which is just to say: I don't know.\n\nBut while we're talking about Pirate Freedom, I just want to say that\nI loved it beyond words.  I think Fr. Chris has more evil in his heart\nthan Severian the torturer ever had.  I look forward to the\ndiscussions to help me unravel this Turk's head knot of a novel.\n\nMatt G."
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