Father Inire as Dionysus

Thomas Bitterman · 25 Oct 2011, 15:37 · from 2011-October.txt.gz

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From: tom at bitterman.net (Thomas Bitterman)
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:37:36 -0400
Subject: (urth) Father Inire as Dionysus
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On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com> wrote:

>    *From:* Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com>
>
> > Gerry Quinn:
> > >Agia: "His name isn't really Hethor, by the way. He says it's a much
> older one, that
> > >hardly anyone has heard of now."
>
> And don?t forget the clothes he sold in Agia?s shop.  They weren?t Hiero
> clothes ? they were ancient Urth clothes, but preserved by relativistic time
> dilation.  Hethor?s ship, like that of Jonas, like all or most of those
> ancient ships, got lost in time and wound up in the distant future of Urth.
>

His name is Charlton Heston.  The "ship that gets lost in time and returns
to Earth in the future" is a _Planet of the Apes_ allusion.  Charlton is an
old name that hardly anyone has heard of now.  Hethor sounds enough like
Heston without giving away the game.  The clothes are a pun on his
character's name: Colonel George Taylor.  Colonel can designate the
second-highest field rank, so first mate fits.

 - Gerry Quinn
>
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