Evan S Barnable

Adam Stephanides · 27 Jun 2000, 09:58 · from urth-v0029.mbox · original

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From: Adam Stephanides <adamsteph at earthlink.net>
Subject: (urth) Re: Evan S Barnable
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:58:37
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Allan Lloyd wrote:
>   Some-one asked what the S stands for. Does no-one get the joke?
>=20
>   Evan S. =3D evanesce =3D disappearing from sight, fading, or maybe
> ghost-like or even Smoky

Wait, it gets better.  Crowley actually refers to Smoky's "evanescence"
in the passage I quoted explaining the origin of the nickname, and I
still didn't get it.

So Smoky's "evanescence" is also his Evan-S-ence.  And possibly his
Evan-essence as well.  (I may have to take back what I just said about
the narrator being straightforward.)

--Adam

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