TSH: Rip van Winkle and John Duns Scotus

Mr Thalassocrat · 04 May 2010, 11:45 · from 2010-May.txt.gz

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From: thalassocrat08 at gmail.com (Mr Thalassocrat)
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 21:15:29 +0930
Subject: (urth) TSH: Rip van Winkle and John Duns Scotus
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On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Stephen Hoy <stephenhoy at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Half-baked thoughts, thought I'd share them in case someone finds something
> useful thereby.
>
> The philosopher/theologian John Duns Scotus is found by lining up three
> iterations of the Zwart Black line,
> - Ieuian, a representation of John in Welsh, which matches his brother
> Emlyn's Welsh name.
> - the two Dunns, Baxter and George
> - Alexander Skotus (presumably an alias used by Zwart)
>
> Nice!

It reminds me that Bax describes himself to Martha as being of Scots
descent. He also says that the name "Dunn" comes from a town there (I
think). Wikipedia says that Duns Scotus was named after Duns in Scotland (so
I guess his name is really "John of Duns in Scotland").

Less interestingly: I assume that "Ted" is short for "Theodore", "gift of
God". But presumably "Doris" also comes from the Greek for gift (despite the
silly assertion on name sites on the net that its best meaning is "Dorian
woman"). No idea what that means; probably nuthin'.

But off on a tangent - do we know what Ted did for a living? My guess is
real estate, and that "Ambrosius" when he wasn't in faerie was the "A" in "A
& I Inc", and that Ted worked for him. And also, as I said before, that Ted
is/was Goldwurm.

I have an image of small town real estate sharks with second lives as
sorcerers fighting magical battles with each other. Apart from anything
else, it sounds like a good concept for a sit-com ...
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