On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 05:55:38PM -0700, Steven Brust <skzb at dreamcafe.com> wrote: > The real answer to his question is that he is paying too much attention to > the cover, fer chrissakes. It is a *wonderful* cover, but attempting to > translate that kind of detail from text to cover is just asking to be > confused. Well, I'm trying to reconcile the text with the cover, and wondering where in a number of possibilities the error lay. If the answer is "The cover artist is smoking crack", so be it. > As for why Vlad uses techniques with a rapier that, in fact, were not > developed during the historical period on Earth when the rapier was in use, > I will only say that there is a reason, and that this is one of the things > I had figured out before I wrote the first word of the first story about > Vlad. Interestink. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt