From: "Roy C. Lackey" 
Subject: Re: (urth) PEACE: 3 Misses
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 23:19:04 -0500

Matthew responding to me:

>> I can make nothing of "Tyler".
>
>Not having read Peace I have no idea if there's any relevance but the word
>can mean door or gate keeper.  Archaic and obsolete except in Masonic
>Lodges where the additional meaning of keeping out the uninitiated applies
>and Tyler is a formal position. To tyle the lodge; bar the doors assured
>that only the aurhorised are within.

So, Helen Birkhead Tyler yields . . .?

torch  +  shininghead (?)  +  gate keeper(?)

flame-topped gate keeper?

Like the cherubim with flaming swords at the gates of Eden, guarding the way
to the tree of life?

-Roy


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