On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 09:33:31PM +0000, "H. T." <electrictwilight at hotmail.com> wrote: > >Another meaning of "odu" is "hole". "Black hole"? Another "Dark > >Star" reference? > Right, last night I forgot that a black-hole is a collapsed star, hence > "dark star"...makes sense :) With all this talk about "Dark Star", I have to wonder if Brust has seen the movie by that name, and whether he was aware of all the connotations that name now bears... -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp