# Cut-throat

*The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 04 Jul 1998*

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### Peter T. Cash
*04 Jul 1998, 00:07*

> Sean wrote:
> In The Book of the New Sun, what we call Mars is called Verthandi (the
> Norn of the present).  In the Tale of the Boy Called Frog, the god
> Mars in the Story is called Spring Wind,

As in "March". Yep.

> Well, a Frog
> jumps, like Cutthroat did (it couldn't be, could it?).  I'm not sure.

Hmm. Actually, the cut-throat is a kind of trout. Dunno why I never thought
of that before (I guess I needed the amphibious hint to get me to jump to
this conclusion). So you might say that Cut-throat is a fish out of water.

Sgt. Rock

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