[Editing to un-top-post-ify] On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Philip Hart wrote: > >On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, David Silberstein wrote: > >> On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Philip Hart wrote: >> >Given that Dragaeran senses (attention spans, pattern recognition, >> >...?) are superhuman, >> Er. They are? Where do you derive that from? >> >I'm sure it's true, or those-the-(wimpy)-gods-don't-name are lame. Hunh? What do Dragaeran senses have to do with the Jenoine? Or do you mean that because the Jenoine *could* have designed the Dragaerans to have better senses, they therefore must have? I recall no evidence in the text that they did any such thing. Perhaps they *are* lame. >I think I recall in Taltos that Morrolan can see a lot better than >Vlad. Do you always generalize from a sample of one? And for that matter, extrapolate an exponential curve (attention spans, pattern recognition) from a single data point (good vision)? > >Maybe the Dragaeran sense of taste is poor - that would explain the >lack of restaurants and their skinniness... > Hmm. I have sometimes wondered about that myself. But if they had poor taste sense, why would they patronize high-quality restaurants, and hire cooks trained in those restaurants (the Cook of Whitecrest Manor) at all? They do seem to know good cooking when they taste it.