"fonted" = 'identified on screen'?
Michael Covarrubias
mcovarru at PURDUE.EDU
Wed May 21 22:03:11 UTC 2008
Mark Mandel wrote:
> Huh. I wouldn't want to be /'kaIrOnd/. Chiron is the ferryman who carries
> dead souls across the Styx.
>
> m a m
>
You're thinking of Charon (also the name of Pluto's satellite/twin body)
Chiron was a centaur adept in medicine. A gentleman among rascal centaurs.
Michael
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