<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>I'm in the middle of a very slow, hopefully thorough re-re-read of the SS series..I'll be hitting y'all up with sme thoughts & questions soon...but I agree I like the Syrex connesction but believe GW made it clear it was an unpronouncable word in a totally alien language..</DIV>
<DIV>~S~<BR><BR></DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">From: Son of Witz <sonofwitz@butcherbaker.org><BR>Subject: Re: (urth) Seawrack's Name<BR>To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth@lists.urth.net><BR>Date: Monday, March 16, 2009, 3:14 PM<BR><BR><PRE>>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jordon Flato [mailto:jordonflato@gmail.com]
>Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 10:26 AM
>To: 'The Urth Mailing List'
>Subject: Re: (urth) Seawrack's Name
>
>Hmmmm. I can't really get on board any of that. Although I can
understand
>wanting to figure it out, as rarely is something laid before us like that
>without some purposful reasonance.
>
>I assumed the word was in a language completely unfamiliar, and non-human.
>Seawrack being a bridge of sorts between to worlds, that of the mother and
>that of humanity. She is being passed from the mother, the non-human
world,
>where she had a non-human name, into the world of humanity, where she has
to
>have a human name.
>
>Why would she have a name of the language of men? I can't imagine Horn
>having a hard time saying any of the words people have said here. He
>'pronounces' an awfuly lot of complicated nomenclature throughout
his tale,
>so Serineia or other others don't strike me as holding any special
>difficulty.
>
>An alien word though, in a tongue not related to the world of man, that
>would be tough. That also has resonance for me. Mirrors the false mother
>the Mother creates to speak to Horn. It has to approximate humanity to
>interact with Horn, and Horn has to 'approximate' Seawracks name to
relate
>to Seawrack.
>
Yes, this jibes with me much more.
~witz
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