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Rita Winston catlady at wicca.net
Fri Sep 1 05:07:22 UTC 2000


No: HPFGUIDX 683

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Firebolt" <particle at u...> wrote:

>...so his name means either 'Flight from Death' or 'Flight of Death'

with some hint of also meaning 'theft of death'. A famous pun on the 
French word 'vol' was when Napoleon confiscated the estates of 
surviving nobles of the pre-Revolutionary regime. One of the 
guys whose estate was confiscated said: "C'est le premier vol de 
l'aigle', which normally means 'it is the first flight of the 
eagle' but in this case 'vol' was to be understood as 'theft'.





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