Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site duke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!mcnc!duke!crm From: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Donaldson/Covenant --Another Opinion Heard From Message-ID: <5951@duke.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 13:38:52 EDT Article-I.D.: duke.5951 Posted: Tue Jun 25 13:38:52 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 07:42:13 EDT References: <2343@topaz.ARPA> Reply-To: crm@duke.UUCP (Charlie Martin) Organization: Duke University Lines: 16 Summary: In article <2343@topaz.ARPA> ddern@bbncch writes: > > o Said protagonist (and perhaps others -- memory blissfully dims) had a > remarkable and off-putting propensity for obscure, dumb ephithets. > "Helleshin!" comes to mind. What ever happened to "By the crimson bands > of Cyttorak", etc? [ Yes, I know -- this is actually one of Dr. Strange's > shellscripts ] > I thought the "helleshin" thing was pretty interesting -- wasn't that used in the Cities In Flight books? As a curse of vegan origin? Does it have any meaning in English, so was it just a word the Donaldson picked up? -- Charlie Martin (...mcnc!duke!crm)