Names, animals and meanings (P2)
The Whorl list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 07 Sep 1998
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mary whalen — 07 Sep 1998, 06:21

This is Sean Whalen (prion).

Pike.  A long thin carnivorous fish (Esox lucius), also called the
northern pike.  Also, any species in family Esocidae that resembles
the pike.  Also the name for a variety of weapons like the spear.
Also, the Latin word lupus can mean either wolf or pike.  Old augur on
Sun Street.  Blood's father.  Dead.

prion

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Alastair Reynolds — 07 Sep 1998, 13:35
  follows, by subject match mary whalen

> This is Sean Whalen (prion).
> 
> Pike.  A long thin carnivorous fish (Esox lucius), also called the
> northern pike.  Also, any species in family Esocidae that resembles
> the pike.  Also the name for a variety of weapons like the spear.
> Also, the Latin word lupus can mean either wolf or pike.  Old augur on
> Sun Street.  Blood's father.  Dead.
> 
> prion

permission to speak...

I don't know if this was a phenomenon unique to British readers of the book,
but I couldn't read "Pike" without thinking of Private Pike from Dad's Army,
probably not quite the effect Wolfe intended...(although, as apparently
GW is a Benny Hill fan, who knows?)

al 

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