Re: [*FSFFU*] _Friday_ (was re: _Courtship Rite_)

From: Nalo Hopkinson (bl213@FREENET.TORONTO.ON.CA)
Date: Fri Sep 26 1997 - 14:03:35 PDT


On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Laura Quilter wrote:

>
> I enjoyed Heinlein when I was young, and especially FRIDAY. (Where did
> her name come from, by the way -- Robinson Crusoe allusion or something
> else?)

NH: I don't know, but I've wondered too. Robinson Crusoe is all I could
think of whenever I read the name, and with my Caribbean background, my
warning bells tended to go off. Oh, and also coupled with the
association of the Gal Friday, the office gofer.

-nalo



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