Philip Hart 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 > > > > > [snip] > 4. Oaths - touching that Piro has adopted "Cha!". Rather chilling that > the Musketeers (except Aerich?) use "Star me", hearkening back to the > nearly-abrupt conclusion of PG. I found "The Trey", presumably appearing > to complement Verra's sisters, rather jarring. Somehow, I saw no connection to the three goddesses in that interjection. I read it as similar to "The Deuce!" an oath exclaiming bad luck (perhaps related to dice throwing? - snake eyes?) perhaps with some similar connection to a game of chance. There was one instance in the text that Deuce was used perhaps inadvertently instead of Trey. I think Mark Mandel noted it and thought that this might explain the apparent copy editing error that there are one or two instances where Trey is not capitalized. > 6. Horse racing. Is Paarfi being nonsensical in the chapter 27 digression > about a runner chasing a rider? There's a book (well worth reading) > called Chasing After Antelopes which has interesting things to say about > bipedalism and strategies for a band of weaponless hunters to run down an > antelope. Dragaerans are very tall, but also very slender - are they > heavier than Easterners? I had assumed they're heavier and would burden a > horse, but then they would also make relatively worse runners. I recall > Khaavren being impressed by Crionofenarr riding a stallion. Do we have > reason to believe gravity on Dragaera is 9.8 m/s/s? Any ideas? A rider on a single horse has to stay within the stamina limits of the horse. Also, there are sorts of terrain that a biped is much better suited to than a horse is.