From: tony.ellis@futurenet.co.uk (Tony Ellis)
Subject: (urth) Re: Digest urth.v009.n001
Date: 2 Apr 1998 11:05:06 +0100


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02/04/98
                                                                      11:01
 RE>Digest urth.v009.n001

Robert Borski wrote:
> ...inferentially we may assume Number Five's
>name to be the male equivalent of Jeannine or Jean/Gene.

Doh!

>As for the "Wolfe" moiety, besides the library reference, Number Five
>remarks that his house is sometimes referred to as Maison du Chien and that
>this "may have been a reference to our surname as well." [ibid. pg 14].

Doh!
I'm so stupid. Thank you Robert. Thank you Damien. I think I must
have read Cerberus too early in life, to have such a blinkered view
of it now. I wonder what else I've missed?



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