(urth) "Hari Mau"
Jerry Friedman
jerry_friedman at yahoo.com
Sun Mar 1 20:27:12 PST 2009
Hi, all!
I'm rejoining the list briefly to point out that the name
Hari Mau in the Short Sun books may come from "harimau",
the Malay word for "tiger". See
http://eyesontheforest.or.id/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=5
or <http://tinyurl.com/aksr58>.
Maybe interesting that it's an animal name, like male names
in Viron, and that the tiger was so important to Borges.
Jerry Friedman
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