Dragaera

Paths of the Dead SPOILER

Joshua Kronengold mneme at io.com
Mon Dec 9 21:18:14 PST 2002

Damien Sullivan writes:
>On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 01:01:42AM -0600, Matthew Hunter wrote:
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>> > I had a feeling 'someone' is Vlad and 'some historian' is Brust, but who
>> > knows.
>> Makes sense, except that it violates the promise "Brust" made to 
>> "Vlad" that no one on Dragaera would find out anything about what 
>> he was narrating.
>Someone lied to Vlad?  Oh no!
>Besides, could be "Brust" coughed up after Vlad died.

Plus this would also match a theme in Dumas (VdB), where Dumas
explains that D'Artagnian has made sure that nobody would tell (about
a certain adventure of his), and then proceeds to explain that
-someone- must have told, since he is writing the story down. 


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