V- 2nd: Ogling Rachel

Heikki Raudaskoski hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi
Thu Jun 17 09:32:06 CDT 2010


Dunno if it has been mentioned yet, but Owlglass is also a translation
of the last name of that proto-picaro, Till Eulenspiegel:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Till_Eulenspiegel


Heikki (catching up little by little)




On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Mark Kohut wrote:

> Anyone but me see Owlglass as a near-pun on Hourglass (as in a desirable female figure)...
>
> A...and a woman who looks into a mirror Owl-like?  Who? Who?  Seeing only the things she desires,
> no real ...self?
>
> Her love for inanimate things, like her car, is a nice capturing of America's car culture and consumer
> goods society?
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