Mark A Mandel wrote: > On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Wes wrote: > > #I just read A Dream Of Passion and noted that there were some serious > #discrepancies between that story and Issola. And even more > perplexing #questions that I thought that maybe others had speculated > upon. > > 0. There sure are. I believe the listmind's opinion is that ADOP can't > be made to fit with _Issola_ and maybe some stuff before that, and is > best considered a dream, just as the title says. (Steve left himself > an out so he wouldn't be bound by this in developing the continuity -- > that's my guess.) That makes most of your questions moot. That really feels like a better fit. I feel silly for not seeing how much the title prefaced the work to let us glimpse into it as being a dream.