My reply is, unfortunately, all the way at the end. I have snipped a lot of text, however. At 15:00 01/31/2003 -0800, David Silberstein wrote: >Warning: This contains spoilers. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >I am convinced that there is an in-joke concerning >"The Society of the Porker Poker". If you want to try and get >it yourself, go read chapter 8 again. More spoiler space for those >who want a chance to get it for themselves. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Actually, there are also spoilers for the in-joke in Athyra, >described in the thread which starts here. > > >http://dragaera.info/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?1:msp:2606:cochbdgmlakmnipkcbbf > >So you might want to stop if you haven't read _Athyra_ either. > > > > > > > > > > > >OK here we go, for reals: > > >[2] Incidentally, "piros" is Hungarian for "red", although I don't >think that is necessarily significant. It may refer to Steve's politics. Is he not a Trotskyist> -- Regards, Pete pgranzeau at cox.net