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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