Dragaera

Dream of Passion Vs. Issola (major spoiler for Issola and DoP)

Thu Oct 17 17:37:24 PDT 2002

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.