Subject: [Spam] Thinking too much--
From: Andrew Huang
Date: 4/2/1997, 11:06 PM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com

	Right. My personal motto is, "I overanalyze things sometimes. I
wonder why I do that...."

	Tsukino Usagi, AKA Sailor Moon, to become Queen Serenity of
Crystal Tokyo (and presumably, the rest of Earth?). Let us examine the
"Queen Serenity" name.

	Serenity. It means peace, calm. Okay, that's nice. But consider
the fact that this name is the product of a Japanese mind. Now, in the
Japanese language, the letter "r" is semi-interchangeable with the letter
"l", and vice versa. Just one of those things about the language. So,
"Serenity" <--> "Selenity".

	I'm not quite sure that "selenity" is an actual word in English.
However, there is a root within it, "selen-", as in the word "selenic". So
what does "selenic" mean? Moonlike. Serenity. Selenity. Sailor Moon.

	Now, this is a play on words combining the English and Japanese
languages. Does Takeuchi Naoko know this much English to begin with, or
am I just reading waaaaay too much into this?

	Gott in Himmel, I'm analyzing Sailor Moon for deeper meaning and
abstract symbolisms in the names and words. This is what Harvard does to
you, folks, you start thinking too much about stupid things....

	I think I'll try to write something for The Sound and the Furry
now. @_@

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