Okay, Everything is Trigun. I was just reading this entry on a blog I regularly go to, Slacktivist. (American Progressive Christian / Lefty political blog). Here, author Fred Clark discusses fictional books and fictional entries in reference materials as copyright traps and how it relates to having a non-literal interpretation of the Bible. Here if you're interested in such things, but entirely skipable to my point. Trap Streets Mountweasels and Made-Up Words. He profiled a word I'd never heard of before - one of these trap-words, something that has essentially become a real word - for a made-up creature. ____________________
an entry for the word “jungftak” which is a fanciful invention, a “Persian bird, the male of which had only one wing, on the right side, and the female only one wing, on the left side; instead of the missing wings, the male had a hook of bone, and the female an eyelet of bone, and it was by uniting hook and eye that they were enabled to fly.” That entry is fictitious because there is no such bird. ------------------------
And here I go flashing back to the end of Trigun Maximum / ending episode of Stampede where Millions Knives and Vash the Stampede are flying locked in each other's arms with one wing each... Goddammit. And I idily wonder if Nightow was inspired by this fictional bird, but probably not, because it is so obscure and it's copyright-trap made up for English-language dictionaries. It's probably entirely coincidental. Still... Dammit.
