Matt Roth: isn't the father in "Scenes From the Life of a Double Monster" also named Ibrahim? [...]Was the first English translation also titled "The Eye"? I've wondered, sometimes, if we might read PF's "New Wye" as "New Eye." Actually, I favor "New I,"...
JM:  New Wye, Aye,  I, Yew, You... ? 
From Abraham to Ibrahim 
"or..Ahim, or Ahem - irksome lumps of dead sound to the ear of today..." (Scenes from the life of a double monster,1958)
 
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