Naming Inverarity, Pierce: not to distract

[Craig Clark]

 Eric Alan Weinstein <E.A.Weinstein at qmw.ac.uk> writes:

> 2) Maas: in Afrikaans, "maas" means "web", for Oedipa, the web of
> implication, or the web in which she might gather her clues.

If so, it's the first time I've heard it, and I've lived in SA for 
all except the first six years of my life. A spider-web is a 
"spinnekop-rak" in Afrikaans, though "maas" is used for a kind of 
runny yoghurt made from soured milk...

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
on suicide."
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