Seawrack's Name

Son of Witz · 16 Mar 2009, 22:14 · from 2009-March.txt.gz

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From: sonofwitz at butcherbaker.org (Son of Witz)
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:14:20 +0000
Subject: (urth) Seawrack's Name
Message-ID: <W4164223346150071237241660@webmail16>


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jordon Flato [mailto:jordonflato at gmail.com]
>Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 10:26 AM
>To: 'The Urth Mailing List'
>Subject: Re: (urth) Seawrack's Name
>
>Hmmmm.   I can't really get on board any of that.  Although I can understand
>wanting to figure it out, as rarely is something laid before us like that
>without some purposful reasonance.
>
>I assumed the word was in a language completely unfamiliar, and non-human.
>Seawrack being a bridge of sorts between to worlds, that of the mother and
>that of humanity.  She is being passed from the mother, the non-human world,
>where she had a non-human name, into the world of humanity, where she has to
>have a human name.
>
>Why would she have a name of the language of men?  I can't imagine Horn
>having a hard time saying any of the words people have said here.  He
>'pronounces' an awfuly lot of complicated nomenclature throughout his tale,
>so Serineia or other others don't strike me as holding any special
>difficulty.
>
>An alien word though, in a tongue not related to the world of man, that
>would be tough.  That also has resonance for me.  Mirrors the false mother
>the Mother creates to speak to Horn.  It has to approximate humanity to
>interact with Horn, and Horn has to 'approximate' Seawracks name to relate
>to Seawrack.
>

Yes, this jibes with me much more.

~witz

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