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From: Dan Parmenter <dan@lec.com> Subject: (urth) What's in a name? Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 14:23:21 From: "Kevin J. Maroney" <kmaroney@crossover.com> > (Remember that most/all of the animal species of Urth except humans were > driven extinct at some point in the past, and the animals present in the > Book are alien replacements which approximate the original species. > Destriers aren't horses, they're alien horse-like beings. This is an > inversion of the standard sf cliche where an alien world is populated by > exotic creatures which are actually just cows and bunnies with different > names; here the Earth is populated by alien species which are *like* cows > and bunnies.) By the first rule of Wolfean naming ("everything is exactly what it says it is") is it fair then to assume that Triskele is indeed a dog? Possibly a "modified" dog, but a dog no less? The Wolfean Naming Rule clearly doesn't always work, since the Salamander is no newt (though it does resemble a certain Newt after a fashion, it flames and flames until its flames burn its bridges and it conveniently disappears :-) Dan P. aka Lexicographer Shellac *More Wolfe info & archive of this list at http://www.urth.net/urth/