(urth) Seawrack's name

[DAVID STOCKHOFF]

Sure, seawrack is a plant name, which is necessary to apply it to a female person. And it fits her much better than Seaweed.

I wouldn't try to suggest that Horn speaks Polish, anyway ... that's an association _we_ might make.

--- On Tue, 8/31/10, Mr Thalassocrat <thalassocrat08 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Mr Thalassocrat <thalassocrat08 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Seawrack's name
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Date: Tuesday, August 31, 2010, 9:22 AM




On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 9:13 PM, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote:

 Absolutely! And Wolfe mixes them up anyway.

If the Syrenka is involved at all, she is not known for being a siren. But Seawrack is.


It's not much of a stretch. 
 
 
Whatever the Mother calls her, I think it's pretty clear how Horn comes to call her "Seawrack". 
 
While walking on the island he pulls up some of the ground cover and sees in his hand "a little, weak, torn thing", and "knew it for the green scum I had seen washed ashore after storms". In other words, what might be called "seawrack", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawrack

 
Wouldn't be at all surprising if "Seawrack" is a recognised female Vironese name.
 
Shortly afterward that, he meets her and hears a name which suggests to him "Seawrack", because of a similarity in sounds, because of her hair "misted green by some microscopic sea-plant", and just because it seems to him to suit her - presumably in part because she appears to him then in some respects "a little, weak, torn thing".

 
Personally, I think that trying to reconstruct the name the Mother calls her by is one of those Wolfean invitations to drive oneself bat-shit - simply not enough information. My guess is that it's something Neighbor-ish. Anyway, Horn never seems to have trouble with the names of the human "foreigners" he encounters.


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