Dragaera

Overcast, clue-by-fours

Fri Aug 2 18:33:04 PDT 2002

Gaertk at aol.com writes:
> 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.

Er, you mean because jhereg eat teckla and carrion?
 
> > 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?").

Yeah, I didn't realize that either.  And I almost wrote to ask you
what you meant.  Rather, I started typing in, "What does your
parenthetical remark mean?  If it weren't for that, I would think I
understood what you were referring to.", deleted it, and decided to
amuse you all by putting it back in.
 
> 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.

Ok, I find that surprising, as I did when I learned my brother and a
friend had trouble telling Michelle Pfeiffer and Uma Thurman apart in
"Dangerous Liasons".

- tky