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Dec 11 03: answers
Well, after much digging around and resourceful question-asking and generally obsessive behavior, the mystery of parahexavoctal has been…not solved so much as concluded. Here’s what I got:
Parahexavoctal adj. having something equivalent to, but distinct from, six…um…
vocts.
In other words, it don’t mean nothing. Apparently I misremembered the lettercol. It was talking about the origin of the name of a different character, specifically Lord Thezmothete. (‘Thesmothete’ means ‘lawgiver.’ Lord T. is a semi-omnipotent being and the Prime Mover for Buck’s particular chunk of universe.) Parahexavoctal just sounds like an interesting word. That’s all.
Another tantalizing Mystery of the Universe, gone piffle in a trice. Phooey. Still, I won’t stew over it. Amarity is for suckers.
Thanks go out to Peter, who was the only one who even tried to help me out. Fat lot of fun the rest of you were.