Hair

Josh Geller · 29 Jul 2003, 14:15 · from urth-v0307.mbox · original

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From: Josh Geller <brunians at brunians.org>
Subject: Re: (urth) Hair
Date: 29 Jul 2003 07:15:24 -0700
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On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 22:53, Alice K. Turner wrote:
> One more thing. Delaney is indeed covered in hair, or at least he was two
> weeks ago. Baldy seems to me a perfectly logical contraction of
> Baldanders--why should it refer to hair? And how does Baldy relate to
> Delaney (who is short, and by now quite rotund)? I've always thought of h=
im
> as Northern European in flavor, what with his troll-like aspects and that
> Gothic castle.

Excuse me, when you've been doing qabalah for thirty-five years you
take some wierd things for granted:

Baldanders Baldy

Ba    d rs
  ldan e       y

Bad SR Delany

Now, like I've said, I am not particularly passionately attached to this
little puzzle, and I put the whole thing forward as much as a wry
comment on the wrangling over minutiae which, in my opinion, badly
infests this list at the possible expense of serious discussion as for
any other reason.

But I think there is actually better evidence for it than for most of
the similar wrangling that does go on much of the time.

J.

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