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