MDMD (1)--Names

Tim Ware redbug at hyperarts.com
Mon Jun 9 20:18:38 CDT 1997



Wicks name-connects in a cute sort of way with Tenebrae, the Holy Week
ritual where the 15 candles are extinguished one by one. Of course,
LeSpark fits well into this "light" motif. Kute Korrespondences perhaps.

R ed Bug

On Mon, 9 Jun 1997 LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU wrote:

> 
> Richard Romeo offers:
> "Wicks implies one of those nature religions--remember that Hammer Film,
> The Wikker Man with Christopher Lee?"
> 
> 
> I thought about a *lamp* wick.  But, then, cherry Coke would hardly be 
> expected to be a prime fuel, would it?
> 
> Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)
> 




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