some mysterious stuff in Long Sun tick/silk/auk/chenille

Adam Thornton · 18 Jan 2011, 03:12 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: adam at io.com (Adam Thornton)
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:12:56 -0600
Subject: (urth) some mysterious stuff in Long Sun tick/silk/auk/chenille
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On 01/17/2011 09:01 PM, James Wynn wrote:
> On 1/17/2011 4:25 PM, Marc Aramini wrote:
>> Also, always confused by Tick.  Does he have blue eyes?  His 
>> catachrest speech seems like we should do something with his name.
>
> Tick is an homage to James H. Schmitz's Tezey Amberdon stories. Her 
> earliest story (I think) was called "The Novice". Telzey was a girl 
> who carried on psychic communication with her Tiger-like alien pet, a 
> crest cat named Tick-Tock.
Note also that Tik-Tok is a sidekick in another series of novels Wolfe 
enjoys very much.

Adam

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