Subject: (urth) "Hari Mau"

From: Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:27:12 +0000

Hi, all!

I'm rejoining the list briefly to point out that the name
Hari Mau in the Short Sun books may come from "harimau",
the Malay word for "tiger".  See

http://eyesontheforest.or.id/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=5

or <http://tinyurl.com/aksr58>.

Maybe interesting that it's an animal name, like male names
in Viron, and that the tiger was so important to Borges.

Jerry Friedman