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Mr Craig Clark CLARK at superbowl.und.ac.za
Mon Jun 24 02:31:03 CDT 1996


LOT64 at aol.com  wrote:

  > I guess Schoenmaker is like 'sweet maker'? Making people's appearance
  > sweeter?

Unless I'm hideously wrong, Schoenmaker translates as "Shoe-maker" 
rather than "sweet-maker". Which I'd guess (I haven't read Carloddi in 
years) is a reference to Pinocchio and noses...

Craig
Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"





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