Thanks Vivek,
have been away and am now starting to catch up with all the Zest mail...in preparation for the reading. a little late, but what to do.
My reading (and looking at the poem it made sense) was definitely that 'putti' meant cherubs, but this of course was coloured by my very classical English education. My protagonist was absolutely adamant it meant dog...because of the name...talk about jumping to conclusions. I will tell him about it and watch him cringe, the cur. But I love this cross-over thing, it happens all the time, and sometimes raises a laugh.
Thanks again, I had a good chuckle. Regards to Srikanth.
Jane
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Hey Jane--
Managed to get in touch with Srikanth Reddy, and this was his response:
" As for "putti," I had the Renaissance European kind in mind -- the
little guys with wings in Raphael's canvases, etcetera. But I'm delighted
to learn about the unintentional cross-over meaning in Tamil/Malayalam,
which was one of those wonderful surprises one comes across every so
often in this business."
Vivek
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