----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Rapawy" <grapawy at yahoo.com> To: <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 11:42 AM Subject: Vlad and Mario (Re: Vlad Interview Questions -- Final Version) > (3) Mario as one of Vlad's reincarnations (probably > ruled out by Steve's comments here and elsewhere > regarding Mario -- both that he "is Mario" and > that he is still alive at the time of _Jhereg_ > although I think it is an interesting hypothesis > from the purely textual evidence). > > -- Greg Yes, Steve is very insistant that "Mario is Mario" but notice that Steve has never once stated that "Vlad is Vlad"... -Scott