From: James Jordan <jbjordan4@HOME.COM>
Subject: Re: (whorl) Re: Heads; Scylla; Four Eyes
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:39:33 

At 09:47 PM 3/13/2001 -0600, I wrote:
>At 12:13 PM 3/13/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>>Also: I'm still waiting for someone to explain Babbie's spectacles. No
>>takers?
>>
>>Robert Borski
>
>
>Nonono! We want YOU to explain it. And then we'll leap upon you like 
>arctothers and shred you to pieces.
>
>Nutria (Slavering, Drooling Rat)


Well, to be NICE about it, I just thought that since Babbie is appearing as 
a human being, the only way his four eyes could be expressed was as a man 
with glasses, which people are called "four-eyes" in American slang, and I 
thought Wolfe was just making a bit of a joke.

Nice Nutria, who started being "Old Four-Eyes" at about the age of 45.


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