At 10:06 PM 12/7/2002 -0800, Damien Sullivan wrote: >On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 04:51:07AM -0600, Matthew Hunter wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > There's an interesting word-of-mouth chain. Aliera -> Sethra -> > > someone -> Paarfi. Hrm. > >I thought Paarfi was responding to someone else's claims. Aliera -> Sethra -> >someone -> some historian; Paarfi says this isn't even hearsay. > >I had a feeling 'someone' is Vlad and 'some historian' is Brust, but who >knows. That's what I was thinking too, but what might both be wrong, of course. > > > > actually cousins? Sounds like Paarfi is admitting to a mistake, > > and we could discover their prior references somewhere. > >The point of creating a big world is that you can refer to things which didn't >happen in your own books. Like the cats of Queen Beruthiel. Not everything >Paarfi hints at has to be in another Paarfi or Vlad book. Thank you! <shaking your hand>