On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote: > But we have another character who is unequivocally named for a mythological monster. Two, actually: Baldanders is named for a monster in Borges' _Book of Imaginary Beings_, who comes from German literature -- where he is a shapeshifter, in fact. -- Dan'l Danehy-Oakes