A couple of Marc's comments...

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 25 Feb 2002, 18:44 · from urth-v0202.mbox · original

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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>
Subject: (urth) A couple of Marc's comments...
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:44:46 -0800
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Marc writes...

> It makes sense of why the narrator needs to find Seawrack, the spy of
> the mother who jeopardizes the fate of mankind. =20

H'mmmm.... it also occurs to me that, if we grant your hypothesis, it
simplifies the connection between the Mother and Scylla-of-Urth: they're
the same "person."=20

> An eponym is also a word that comes from someone's name, like sandwiches
or
> johns/crappers (according to urban legend, anyway). I was trying to figure
> out what eponym might help solve that scene.  Regalio says his real name
is
> Roger, but that means very little to me.  Roger?

Well, someone else mentioned "roger" in radio-ese: basically means "I=20
understand" (and "roger wilco" is "I understand and WILl COmply"). But=20
what immediately comes to my mind is that "to roger" is an old British=20
slang verb, roughly meaning "to fuck," but not quite as high on the=20
obscenity scale - probably about level with "bugger" for shock value,=20
i.e., very little.

Not that this helps very much.

--=20

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