2022年11月17日 · Cordwainer Smith's characters often have names that encode the numbers 5-6. In "The Dead Lady of Clown Town," this is taken to an extreme, with a robot called Fisi (English "five-six"), Lord Limaono (Hawaiian "lima-ono"), Englok (Cantonese "ng-luk"), Lady Goroke (Japanese "go-roku"), Lord Femtiosex (Swedish for "fifty-six"), and the dead lady herself Panc …

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