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I just received a copy of Priscilla Meyer's "Find What the Sailor Has
Hidden" and I noticed on p. 185 that she connects King Alfin crashing
his plane (called a "bird of doom" in the notes to line 71) into a
building (reminiscent of certain recent events) with the waxwing flying
into the window.  She mentions that the Swiss call the waxwing
Sterbevogel ("death-bird") and consider it an omen of war, pestilence
and famine, which reappears every 7 years (though it was actually 8
years since the last attack on the World Trade Center).  She also
mentions that Shade died 16 days after his 61st birthday.  16+61=77, the
number of one of the planes involved in the terrorist attack of
September 11th.  Don't read too much into this, it's just a wild
coincidence that I thought you guys might find interesting.

Sincerely,
Steve Anderson