On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Steven Brust wrote: >At 12:55 PM 9/26/2002 -0500, pddb at demesne.com wrote: >> >> > Who is the potential ringer, and why? >> >>I'd thought it might be Raphael Carter, but I am not sure the timing >>works out for that. No doubt Steve will now fail to tell us in a >>very amusing manner. > >Uh...what ringer? > >I mean, last I checked, 7=7, at least for medium-range values of 7. > As I understood it, what PDDB meant was that while Scribblies (Original) := { "Kara Dalkey", "Emma Bull", "Pamela Dean", "Will Shetterly", "Steven Brust", "Patricia Wrede", "Nate Bucklin" } there was a possiblity that you intended something along the lines of Scribblies (Some of Original mixed with One from Later period) := { "Kara Dalkey", "Emma Bull", "Pamela Dean", "Will Shetterly", "Steven Brust", "Raphael Carter", "Nate Bucklin" } Which did not seem completely impossible to me at least because Book_of_the_Seven_Wizards[6] uses "One" rather than "She", and the gender-neutral identifier *could* have been a nod to Raphael Carter's Androgyny RAQ: http://www.chaparraltree.com/raq/ But by all means, please, feel free to clarify who you meant. Or, I suppose, you could fail to disambiguate in a very amusing manner. :-)