On 6/1/06, Jon Lincicum <lincicum at comcast.net> wrote: > Davdi Silverrock wrote: > > For some reason I thought that "Klyburr" was yet another variant, but > > I appear to be mistaken. Although thanks to the Dramatis Personae, I > > see that there is a Kliburr (who lead the Carriage House Uprising), > > and a Kl'burra, who was a Dzur. I strongly suspect that Clybur or > > Clybru was/is an Athyra. > > > Since he was apparently Head of Mathematics in the first year of > Tortaalik's reign (I'm assuming here that Pel was referring to the > *current* head of mathematics, of course) My own notion, which might well be mistaken, was that Clyb{ur|ru} was some famous mathematician of antiquity. This as a result of reading this page, http://speakeasy.org/~mamandel/Cracks-and-Shards/Paarfi_Dumas.html wherein the "Clybur" reference is juxtaposed with a similar reference to "Pythagoras of old". But, really, who can say?