Re: Spoiler Alert (the last episode of the first season)
Wayne H Yin (why@cc.utexas.edu)
Thu, 6 Apr 2000 16:52:40 -0500 (CDT)
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Bernice Chow wrote:
> Spoiler Alert (the last episode of the first season)
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> I agree with the point that Ryka had made. Reinhard wants to keep the
> hair of Kircheis is a way of comfort and could always remind him the
> mistake that he had made.
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> I am not sure whether keeping a lock of someone hair is only an Asian
> practice or not. But if it is, then the only explanation that I could
> ever think of is that the author himself is an Japanese....
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it was not an uncommon practice in europe, either, at least not for
the germans whom the empire is modeled after. in fact, only a couple of
years ago sotheby's auctioned an estate which included a small locket
containing some of beethoven's hair.
on a side note: i seem to recall reading that the buyer donated a
strand of beethoven's hair (w/follicle) to a research org who was busy
trying to unravel the "genius" gene. it was impressive how many
talented artists/musicians, great scientists and visionaries in history
they'd collected DNA from... and also a little GATTACA-ish.
maybe the inferior genes exclusion law isn't that far in our future
after all? :)
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Wayne H. Yin
why@cc.utexas.edu
