From: Michael Straight <straight@email.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: (urth) Gene/Jeannine/#5
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1998 13:43:02 


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On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Robert Borski wrote:

> On pg. 22 of the Scribner's edition of FIFTH HEAD, Number Five's aunt tells
> him, "Call me Aunt Jeannine." And since later we learn that Aunt Jeannine
> is a female variant of Number Five's father (and since Number Five himself
> is cloned from the same source), inferentially we may assume Number Five's
> name to be the male equivalent of Jeannine or Jean/Gene.
                                   
Jeannine = "Gene #9"?

-Rostrum


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