(urth) Father Inire as Dionysus

[Jeff Wilson]

On 10/25/2011 10:37 AM, Thomas Bitterman wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Gerry Quinn <gerry at bindweed.com
> <mailto:gerry at bindweed.com>> wrote:
>
>     *From:* Lee Berman <mailto:severiansola at hotmail.com>
>
>      > Gerry Quinn:
>      > >Agia: "His name isn't really Hethor, by the way. He says it's a
>     much older one, that
>      > >hardly anyone has heard of now."
>     And don’t forget the clothes he sold in Agia’s shop.  They weren’t
>     Hiero clothes – they were ancient Urth clothes, but preserved by
>     relativistic time dilation.  Hethor’s ship, like that of Jonas, like
>     all or most of those ancient ships, got lost in time and wound up in
>     the distant future of Urth.
>
>
> His name is Charlton Heston.  The "ship that gets lost in time and
> returns to Earth in the future" is a _Planet of the Apes_ allusion.
> Charlton is an old name that hardly anyone has heard of now.  Hethor
> sounds enough like Heston without giving away the game.  The clothes are
> a pun on his character's name: Colonel George Taylor.  Colonel can
> designate the second-highest field rank, so first mate fits.

Good one, Thomas!


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