On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 05:12:53PM -0500, Jag <agrajag at dragaera.net> wrote: > On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 17:05, Ike Porter wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Andrew Lias wrote: > > > >>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. > > My memory is telling me that amorphia did not appear in the original > > books, and I'm sure someone will step up with verification any minute now > > (checking watch...) > I just looked in 'The Book of Jhereg' On page 69, third line down, it > clearly reads 'Great Sea of Choas'. The word was NOT changed in the > omnibus. > > As for using Amorphia.. I figure he just needed a different word since > he was talking about people interacting with it. Does anyone remember > what word is used when Vlad causes raw chaos to obliterate some of the > Bitch Patrol? (I don't remember which book that is :( ) I have both sets of books. If people will compile a list of references to check in both omnibus and originals, I'd be glad to check them. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp