Gaertk at aol.com writes: In a message dated Thu, 29 Aug 2002 5:57:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, Steven Brust <skzb at dreamcafe.com> writes: > At 03:16 PM 8/22/2002 -0400, Barbara Baj wrote: >> Often it's mentinoned that a citizen gets a link to the >> orb. How is this actually done? > In most cases, it happens some time shortly before birth. >?Paarfi will be discussing this in, I think, volume 2 of > Viscount. Hmmm, I would never have guessed something like that. I had seen it mentioned on, i think, rasfw. And it leaves the question of how Vlad got his link, since he father didn't buy his Jhereg title until after Vlad was born. Steve did say "most cases". House Jhereg probably buys a crate of Orb links and hands them out with the purchased title. rone -- {Reagan's} presidency always reminded me of a remark made by a woman to Heywood Broun following Secretariat's victory in the Triple Crown. After the trauma of Vietnam and Watergate, she said, Secretariat had "restored her faith in humanity." I like to think Reagan was the Secretariat of the eighties. - Garry Trudeau