<div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Going directly to the onomastics is not a bad way to go. I liked the book. Some beautiful writing. I did not get it all. I am gonna read Castleview again. And Interlibrary Loan again. The ending -- what the hell? It was perfect and it had to end but he is really trusting us.</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;" contenteditable="false"><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">*******</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Eric Bourland</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">eb@hwaet.com</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.hwaet.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.hwaet.com/</a></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a fr-original-style="" href="https://twitter.com/EricBourland" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://twitter.com/EricBourland</a><a href="https://twitter.com/EricBourland" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a></div></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><hr id="previousmessagehr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; user-select: none;"><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">From</strong>: David Duffy <David.Duffy@qimrberghofer.edu.au><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Sent</strong>: 9/2/21 5:07 AM<br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">To</strong>: "urth@lists.urth.net" <urth@lists.urth.net><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Subject</strong>: (urth) Back to Inter Library Loan - prob some spoilers</span></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Hi All.</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Finally finished this. Since the Ploughman's level of story does seem rather full of trapdoors, as someone apparently epigrammatized about Wolfe, I have gone straight to the onomastics, mainly via Wikipedia !!?!</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">The first kicker for me was that Fevre is an "Occupational surname for ironworkers and Smiths" - hmmph.</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Barry is Finnbarr is the King of the Dead, Adah is Dawn, and Chandra is Moon.</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"Finvarra is a benevolent figure who ensures good harvests, a master at chess, strong horses, and great riches to those who will assist him. However, he also frequently kidnaps human women."</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">As Ern himself comments, Ern is the Sea-Eagle, but other meanings in Gaelic are "grieve", "mourn", "pain", "run". Lichholm is pretty straightforward, along with the Jingle Bells House.</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Note that "True Humans" are perfectly bilaterally symmetric, so reclones are easy to pick. Note that there is a big literature on "fluctuating asymmetry" in biology,</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">where asymmetry is a marker (a "soft sign") in humans and other species for assorted genetic disorders. I am sure that Wolfe knew that, given his love of wonky older science. But here, it is a further pointer to being of the Tuatha, some benevolent, some bipolar ;) I am reminded of _Castleview_, but also Waugh's _Decline and Fall_...</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Cheers, David Duffy.</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">_______________________________________________</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Urth Mailing List</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">To post, write urth@urth.net</div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Subscription/information: <a fr-original-style="" href="http://www.urth.net" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 102, 147); text-decoration: underline; user-select: auto;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.urth.net</a></div></div>