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- From: ptyaxel@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Seymour Axelrod)
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- Subject: Re: The Junior Ganymede
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 21:54:00 GMT
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- In article <C1IzyM.GLJ@rice.edu>, udaya@portia.rice.edu (Udaya Sathuvalli 207Cox x3626) writes...
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- >Jeeves is known to belong to 'The Junior Ganymede'
- >club. Does anyone happen to know the reason for that name?
- >Is "Ganymede" some classical allusion- it would not
- >be surprising, considering the other classical
- >allusions in PGW's work?
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- Quite right. From the Greek Ganymedes, who was cupbearer to the gods.
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