(urth) City on Green

[Jeff Wilson]

On 12/31/2010 7:08 PM, Adam Thornton wrote:
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> On Dec 31, 2010, at 6:29 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
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>> 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?
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>> "Nexus" is highly ironic for a walled, largely lawless city in a kingdom with closed roads.
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> "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".

I'm down with all of that, it's just that nexus implies that separate, 
distant things are being brought together and attached, which is belied 
by the walls, gates, roadblocks, and so forth that keep people separated 
and apart.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
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