Names, animals and meanings (P2)Whorl

This is Sean Whalen (prion). Pike. A long thin carnivorous fish (Esox lucius), also called the northern pike. Also, any species in family Esocidae that resembles the pike. Also the name for a variety of weapons like the spear. Also, the Latin word lupus can mean either wolf or pike. Old augur on Sun Street. Blood's father. Dead. prion

permission to speak... I don't know if this was a phenomenon unique to British readers of the book, but I couldn't read "Pike" without thinking of Private Pike from Dad's Army, probably not quite the effect Wolfe intended...(although, as apparently GW is a Benny Hill fan, who knows?) al