names for Nigel

Michael Andre-Driussi · 10 May 2003, 14:28 · from urth-v0305.mbox · original

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From: Michael Andre-Driussi <mantis at siriusfiction.com>
Subject: (urth) names for Nigel
Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 07:28:12 -0700
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Wow, Nigel, you have suddenly burst into high activity!

Nigel Price wrote:
>I look forward, when I get to read the printed version of the story, to
>seeing how all the names are spelled. All my efforts in this and my previo=
us
>message are just "best guesses" based on what I heard on the dramatised
>reading. Is it "Baden" or "Badden"? And how is the shark-man's name spelle=
d?
>"Hange"?
>
>And talking of names, I realise that I never discussed the name of the
>missionary on the island. His full name is - from memory - something like
>"Mervyn Robertson" or "Robinson", but he doesn't like his given name and
>prefers to be called "Rob". As some of the other names in the story are
>clearly significant, I wondered what Rob's name might indicate.

I can help you there:

Baden
Rev. Rob Robbins (his first name is really "Mervyn")
Annys (witch in L.A.)
Julius R. Christmas (Mary's dad)
Hanga
Langi, the native girlfriend (seems to be the pet form of "Langitokoua"
which is also used in the text)


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