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Re: Darkover's Sharra <=> X-men's Phoenix?

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From: Paul Hahn
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1986 14:56
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In article <1668@Shasta.ARPA> interran@Shasta.UUCP (John Interrante) writes:
>Some of you may have noticed that there's a remarkable resemblance
>between Sharra (of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Darkover series) and
>Dark Phoenix. It isn't just Phoenix and Sharra, too. Darkover esps
>(those with laran) almost always had red hair, and Jean Grey/Marvel
>Girl originally was an esp with red hair, too.

	    By an odd maybe-coincidence, one of Lilandra's favorite
	oaths, which she had occasion to use during the whole Phoenix
	business, was "Sharra and K'ythri preserve us!".  Can anyone
	shed more light on this?
						--pH
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From: ph@wucec2.UUCP (Paul Hahn)
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Subject: Re: Darkover's Sharra <=> X-men's Phoenix?
Message-ID: <1291@wucec2.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-Jan-86 09:56:46 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 24 09:56:46 1986
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