In a message dated Wed, 31 Jul 2002 10:49:32 PM Eastern Standard Time, tyan at twcny.rr.com (Thomas Yan) writes: > When did you first become aware of the Overcast? No idea. I remember a whole bunch of things confusing me in _Jhereg_: the Interregnum, Cawti, "humans", etc. I think it took me half the book to figure out why it was funny for Loiosh to ask to eat the Teckla. >(Anyone care to speculate how long it has been around?) Quite a while. It was taken for granted before Adron's Disaster. > Is there something else you needed a clue-by-four to > recognize? The Sorceress in Green's secret ("what is the name of this book?"). I first read Lord of the Rings at a young age, and I remember my surprise near the end when I realised that Sauron and Saruman were not the same person. --KG