Names--M&D, spoiler?

Steven Maas (CUTR) maas at cutr.eng.usf.edu
Thu May 22 14:35:56 CDT 1997


Don Larsson wrote:

(see below)











> ""'No!  Please!  My little ones!  O Tiffany!  Jason!'
>  
> 'Any more?'
>  
> '--Soames!'""
> 
> About that name--interesting that it should be changed from Scott prior
> to release!?  The only 'Soames" I can connect with is the mean-spirited
> villain of Galsworthy's THE FORSYTHE SAGA, but it seems an unlikely
> connection.
> 
> Don Larsson, Mankato State u (MN)

For some reason I keep thinking the name of the barn-burner in a Faulkner
short story I read in high school was Soames or something like that.

I'm prob'ly imagining it. 

	Steve Maas




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