"Hari Mau"

Jerry Friedman · 02 Mar 2009, 04:27 · from 2009-March.txt.gz

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From: jerry_friedman at yahoo.com (Jerry Friedman)
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 20:27:12 -0800 (PST)
Subject: (urth) "Hari Mau"
Message-ID: <243345.76679.qm at web50701.mail.re2.yahoo.com>

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

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