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bu...@quik07.enet.dec.com (Ben Burch) writes:


} 
}> I believe that Will just made it up [much as he made up near everything else
}> in Adventure].  I can ask him, but I'm really quite sure that it was just
}> random-letters.

As a footnote, I did ask him and he did make it up.  All the purported
etymologies are "folk"...

}I read a book called "The Longest Cave" which was all about the exploration of
}the Mammoth Cave / Colossal Cave complex in TN.  (There IS a place named "Y2",
}there IS a "Bedquilt")  In this book is a picture of a woman named Pat
}Crowthers (I dont really remember the correct spelling, sorry if I got
}it wrong.)
}who is mapping the cave on an IBM 1130 with a pen plotter.  My question is
}if this woman is related to the adventure author of the same last name?

Just so.  Patty was Will's wife at the time.  She is still involved in
caving, I think, but Will has been out of it for years.

  /Bernie\