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Query: "interesting association" in PF
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>From Don Johnson
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> I may have missed this but has anyone figured out the last entry
under "Waxwings" in the PF Index: "interesting association belatedly
realized" There is no page #.
>Ideas??
Matt Roth: I'll give it a shot. There are two kinds of waxwings
in North America (besides the fictional Bombycilla shadei): the
Bohemian Waxwing and the Cedar Waxwing. Could it be that it
was only after Kinbote was in Cedarn that he realized this,
thus noting the Cedar/Cedarn link? Moreover, the latin for the
Bohemian is Bombycilla garrulus, and Kinbote is nothing if
not garrulous. So perhaps Kinbote lately realized his own
association with the common names for this most important
bird? I don't know, seems like a stretch now that I've
typed it all out.
MR
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> I may have missed this but has anyone figured out the last entry
under "Waxwings" in the PF Index: "interesting association belatedly
realized" There is no page #.
>Ideas??
Matt Roth: I'll give it a shot. There are two kinds of waxwings
in North America (besides the fictional Bombycilla shadei): the
Bohemian Waxwing and the Cedar Waxwing. Could it be that it
was only after Kinbote was in Cedarn that he realized this,
thus noting the Cedar/Cedarn link? Moreover, the latin for the
Bohemian is Bombycilla garrulus, and Kinbote is nothing if
not garrulous. So perhaps Kinbote lately realized his own
association with the common names for this most important
bird? I don't know, seems like a stretch now that I've
typed it all out.
MR
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