From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!rocheste!stuart
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Title: Nessus' name
Article-I.D.: rocheste.836
Posted: Sun Feb 27 03:00:31 1983
Received: Mon Feb 28 19:04:49 1983

From: Stuart.Friedberg
I don't have most of my library readily available, but
from what I remember of Nessus' character, and some of
the comments a puppeteer made about the voice most (all?)
of the puppeteers who dealt with humans had (sexy contralto,
if I recall accurately), I would venture that someone with
a classical bent tagged Nessus with the name and Nessus 
either didn't care or thought it was amusing. The chances
are poor that Nessus did that much study of human mythology;
but, who really knows?

Remember that Nessus had a very strange sense of humor in
his manic modes. But then all the puppeteers we ever saw 
were nuts ...

By the way, do you notice how we speak/write of these
characters as though they had physical existence. This,
even when such existence would be in our future? I take
this as a mark of high achievement. That an author can
create new worlds that we appreciate enough to make our own ...

					Stu Friedberg
				{seismo, allegra}!rochester!stuart