(urth) City on Green

[Adam Thornton]

On Dec 31, 2010, at 6:29 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:

> On 12/31/2010 5:45 PM, António Marques wrote:
>> - What's the meaning/etymology of Nessus? Nexus is a superb association.
>> What's the purpose of our being told repeatedly how vast the city is?
> 
> "Nexus" is highly ironic for a walled, largely lawless city in a kingdom with closed roads.

"Nessus" is the centaur whose blood killed Hercules.  I always took it as kind of an ironic inversion of "Buenos Aires"; "foul blood" as opposed to "fair winds".

Adam