Ernie Cotha [Digest urth.v002.n025]

John Bishop · 22 Jul 1997, 15:33 · from urth-v0003.mbox · original

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From: John Bishop <jbishop at ch.hp.com>
Subject: (urth) re: Ernie Cotha [Digest urth.v002.n025]
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 15:33:00
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[Posted from URTH, a mailing list about Gene Wolfe's New Sun and other work=
s]


  I haven't read that story, but given the Catholic
  connection Ron's post describes, I instantly
  thought thusly:

     Ernie Cotha ->
    =20
           "Golgotha", the hill where
           Christ was crucified ->
          =20
                 translated sometimes as
                 "Place of the Skull"
                 =20
   Was Ernie a Colonel?  Col. Cotha would be a dead
   giveaway.

        -John

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