V2, Chap 15 (Sahha), I, p 461 - "Mene, mene tekel, upharsin"

[Michael Bailey]

> Like, with Josephine he has rejected a (by implication incestuous, or
> at least insufficiently exogamous) involvement with her and with the
> Latinate, Romance Language, Catholic way of life, and with Rachel he
> asserts his individuality again by refusing to climb the other
> (Jewish) side of his family tree...
>


wish I would have elaborated the other day when this was clear in my
mind and not obviously wrong and borderline offensive like it seems
this morning...



-- 
"The general agreement is that language should be a kind of honey.  I
like it to be a kind of speed." - Michael Moorcock