Mantis on some NEW SUN names

Marc Aramini · 04 Jan 2008, 13:53 · from 2008-January.txt.gz

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From: marcaramini at yahoo.com (Marc Aramini)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 05:53:47 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) Mantis on some NEW SUN names
In-Reply-To: <44fb53d10801040017o5eacad95u19204721ee6ca391 at mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <746911.46247.qm at web58203.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

As someone who obsesses about weight unnaturally from
years of boxing at 126 lbs, I found it interesting
when Wolfe described Severian in an interview, saying
he was about 6'1'' or taller and maybe 170 pounds.  So
we've got a Bernard Hopkins style Severian. Sev
certainly isn't a heavyweight.

Seventeen stones is almost certainly too heavy to fit
Sev and far too light for Baldanders.


--- Matthew Keeley <matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Perhaps "Seventeen Stones" could be a reference to
> weight (1 stone =
> 14 pounds). Then again, I'm not sure if there's
> anything we can do
> with 238 pounds, unless Wolfe is commenting on some
> friend's size
> here, not their name.
> 
> -Matt
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