Dragaera

Amorphia

Wed Dec 18 13:59:07 PST 2002

>>The sudden introduction of the term "amorphia", especially when used in 
>>reference to such things as "The Lesser Sea of Amorphia" seems jarring.
>>Every time I see it, now, I can't help but to wonder why no one, 
>>especially such experts in the matter as Aleira and Morollan, ever 
>>referred to it before Issola.  It's like someone did a universal search 
>>and replace for the lexography of Dragaera.
>
>Actually, they did. It's "Amorphia" in _Book of Jhereg_ (and I imagine in 
>_Book of Taltos_ too).

Per my understanding, it was NOT Amorphia is the original prints, but that 
it's been altered in the Omnibus reprent (i.e., _Book of Jhereg_).  Given 
this, I think that I'm correct that the term appeared originally in Issola.

>Personally, I always thought that "Lesser Sea of Chaos" sounded better, and 
>that it was clear from context that it wasn't just disorder in general, but 
>Something specific.

I thought so, as well.

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