Gregory Rapawy writes:
>* the initial offer (too big to pass up -- certainly
> a tendency of Vlad's we are familiar with from
> _Jhereg_ and _Taltos_);
Though it's fairly clear, from the amounts that are talked about, that
somewhere in there Vlad got addicted to murder -- he tends to do it even
when the sums in question are -far- less than he gets from his normal
business, and prices his stuff by the target rather than by the
danger/risk, which causes screw-ups like that in Phoenix. Mind, this
is less true in _Taltos_, where he's less affluent and the money's
better, and in _Jhereg_, the money's -really- good.
> stories, I'm not sure whether we can rule out his
> having read Paarfi, and there is certainly a
> comment in _Orca_ that indicates he is familiar
> with Paarfi's work -- the "cut to pieces" line);
Vlad mentions that he reads Paarfi at at least one point.
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