--- feste37 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> What I find intriguing about these photos are the
> captions. For
> example "Raja 
> Felix and his wife." The wives, it appears, have no
> names. Not one of
> them. It 
> reminds me of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale,
> about a future 
> society in which the fundamentalist Christians have
> taken over. The
> women 
> are named only by their connection to their
> particular "Commander."
> Thus 
> Commander Fred's baby-making machine is called
> "Offred" (of Fred). So
> I 
> guess the woman's name in the above example is
> Offelix.

A reflection of MMY's cultural background. It is what
it is.


  
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