On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 04:32:49PM -0700, David Silberstein wrote: > On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 pddb at demesne.com wrote: > > >On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 03:26:52AM -0400, chris cunningham wrote: > >[snip] > > > >> now, amidst _athyra_, i've just realised, hopefully correctly, that the > >> wizards savn reads about in _the book of the seven wizards_ are the > >> scribblies, and/or other authors of mr. brust's acquaintance. > You know, that never ever occurred to me. Kewl. Sometimes it doesn't occur to us either. > >> . > >> but which is which? > > >> she who is small > >> she who is tall > >> she whose hair is red > >> he whose eyes are green > >> he whose hair is dark (skzb?) > >> the gentle one > >> the master of rhyme > > > >I could tell you, but how much fun would that be? I mean, I'm willing, > >but do people want to play more first? > > Well, can you confirm that they are all current or former Scribblies, > or are there others in there as well? I find a very easy correlation for six; the remaining one is actually a bit of a puzzle. You know Steve is perfectly capable of throwing in a ringer. > The list that Googling on rasfw has uncovered is: > > Steven Brust, Will Shetterly, Emma Bull, Kara Dalkey, Pamela Dean, > Nate Bucklin, and Patricia Wrede. > > Which does come to 7, I note. Unless I left someone out. Hmmm. There was a brief period before Will and Emma moved to L.A. when Raphael Carter was in the Scribblies. Until Will and Emma and I went to Las Vegas to deal with VISCOUNT, there waw a sense in which the last Scribblies meeting was a time when Raphael and I went over to Steven's house in Minneapolis to critique the manuscript of DRAGON. I provide this information partly for its obfuscatory aspect, since I can't recall how the timing of that works out with the passage in ATHYRA. At that point Pat and Nate had left the group and Kara was in Colorado, but this means really nothing in terms of the Book of the Seven Wizards, which is remarkably timeless. > >> have read a bit of shetterly and a lot of bull (:p), but not much > >>from the other scribblies, other than in the liavek books, and that > >>was long ago in a distant land. is emma bull tall? does will > >>shetterly have green eyes? hmm... > > >They have websites, I think with pictures. > > I have looked at the pictures, and it is hard to judge heights & eye > color with the contextless low-resolution stuff that is out there. :-) I realized after I posted that height is in any case relative and you can't tell as much as you might wish about height just from looking at one person in isolation. -- Pamela Dean Dyer-Bennet (pddb at demesne.com) "I will open my heart to a blank page and interview the witnesses." John M. Ford, "Shared World"