On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 23:35:43 -0800 (PST), you wrote: >P > a > t > h > s > o > f > t > h > e > D > e > a > d > >S > p > o > i > l > e > r > s > >A > h > e > a > d > > A few comments in response, snippage where necessary: > > >2. Teldra spends a considerable time in the wilderness in this novel. >Looking back at the beginning of Issola, where Vlad has a typical >I'm-better-than-a-Dragaeran moment about his woodsmanship, I wonder why >Teldra has to pick her way carefully. (By the way, can someone reassure >me about the first interaction between them in that novel, where Teldra in >effect says they are friends? I had assumed their relationship had >consisted of 'Effusive greeting' -> 'uncomfortable/off-balance >acknowledgement' and 'Wine?' -> 'ditto' until that point.) There are >several points about Vlad's reporting of Teldra's account of her meeting >with Morrolan in Issola chapter 7 that are worth poking at. > This seems to me to be Lady Teldra's making Vlad feel superior. > >5. Tazendra's intelligence - I admired her speech in concluding chapter >16. I find her (assumed?) stupidity grating after a while - I hope she >gets more opportunities to demonstrate that "if Sethra Lavode said it, it >must be the truth" in reference to 'no dumb sorcerer ever made it past >500'. > After my first re-reading of PG, I realised that Tazendra isn't stupid at all, she simply thinks differently. -- lazarus "Therefore, my Harry, Be it thy course to busy giddy minds with foreign quarrels; that action, hence borne out, may waste the memory of the former days." -- King Henry IV, Part ii Act 4, Scene 5