On Monday, June 17, 2002, at 09:53 PM, Steve Simmons wrote: > Steven Brust writes: > >> At 01:46 AM 6/15/2002 -0700, David Goldfarb wrote: >> >>> Just so. The "-el" suffix derives from the Hebrew for "God" and in >>> angelology is on the end of just about all the angel names. So, any >>> character with a name ending in "-el" I knew would end up on Yahweh's >>> side (frex: Abdiel, Uriel, Raphael) and any who didn't (Asmodai, >>> Mepistopheles, Lilith, Harut) would end up aligned with Satan. It >>> worked >>> for the pair of "grunt" angels, Kyriel and Sith. >> >> What's funny is that *I* didn't realize that until you pointed it >> out. This is kinda weird. I mean, I remember as I was writing that I >> didn't know how Kyriel and Sith would jump. Strange. > > Taylor Caldwell wrote in a preface to `Dialogs With The Devil' that at > some point the characters seemed to take over the novel. Other authors > have reported similar actions by their characters, but in this > particular > case Caldwell found it quite disconcerting. > That happens to me all the time. Characters appear I hadn't planned for, etc. I find it disconcerting sometimes but that's one of the joys of writing: sometimes things write themselves > Perhaps you should try a sequel and observe more closely . . . it would > be sort of a cross between `Paradise Regained,' `Only Begotten > Daughter,' > and Vidals `Messiah.' > > :-) > -- > "Every time I see [name deleted], I get the urge to drop my pants > and water him. I'm hoping he'll either grow up or take the hint." > -me > > ------ Chris Turkel Guru, Dragaera Readalong List http://dragaera.info