> ...beaker(did i spell THAT right? arrrrg), a word from one of my favorite books (The Tower of Geburah, or The Iron Scepter, i forget which, by John White (wpeaking of which, anyone ever heard of either of those?))

I have. In fact, I've got both books, and loved them when I read them as a kid. A couple of years ago I re-read The Tower Of Geburah, and found it somewhat annoying, since by that time I had taken classes in Biblical Hebrew and Greek, and realized that many or most of the characters and place-names in the book were simply Hebrew or Greek words transliterated into English. Don't know why this annoyed me the way it did; the books themselves aren't bad, although many people would probably think of them as Chronicles-of-Narnia rip-offs.

Iss "'Hokoino', though, *is* a pretty good name for a villain" achar