At 11:18 PM 12/9/2002 -0600, Joshua Kronengold wrote: >Damien Sullivan writes: > >On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 01:01:42AM -0600, Matthew Hunter wrote: > >> On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 10:06:45PM -0800, Damien Sullivan > <phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote: > >> > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 04:51:07AM -0600, Matthew Hunter wrote: > >> > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > 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. <grin> One of my favorite passages.