<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Pike as spear, not fish. Of course. I had to train myself to think "fish" just to learn the naming system.<br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 12/13/10, James Wynn <i><crushtv@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: James Wynn <crushtv@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: (urth) Urth Digest, Vol 76, Issue 82<br>To: "The Urth Mailing List" <urth@lists.urth.net><br>Date: Monday, December 13, 2010, 12:28 PM<br><br><div id="yiv1121178772">
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<div>>James Wynn: I mean, I might have just been lucky in
picking my interpretation. <br>
>However, it brings to mind Lee's young woman/crone picture
analogy. <br>
>Or, Stephen King's ink blot/picture of Jesus analogy in
"The Shining". <br>
>When I read it, I said "Oh, Pike, Blood, Rose of Sharon."</div>
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<div>Jerry Friedman-<br>
Would you mind making the connection for me among those three
disparate nouns? (Not the</div>
<div>connection among the characters.) Or point me to someplace
in the archives?</div>
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The spear that pierced Christ's side. What can I say? That's just
the way I'm wired, I guess. I even thought the reference was obvious
when I wrote it this morning. Clearly, I'm a little crazy, but
sometimes it works. It gives me an appreciation for Wolfe's problem
with getting his clues across.<br>
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u+16b9<br>
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