On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 6:59 AM, Andrew Long <andrew.long@mac.com> wrote:

My mind still boggles when I consider how she could havce come up with a name for an organisation like "the Benignity of the Compassionate Hand"!

I'm betting she was inspired by one of the nicknames of the RL Mafia, e.g. "The Black Hand."

Richard Aiken

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