Philip Hart wrote: > > >>>>I think I recall in Taltos that Morrolan can see a lot better than > >>>>Vlad. > > >>> Do you always generalize from a sample of one? > > >>This is (one hopes intentionally) very funny. > > > It is also a very good example of a snarky rhetorical question. I > > would have been more courteous, but a response that paraphrased a line > > from _Issola_ was just too good an opportunity to miss, as well as > > being appropriate. > > That's what single quotation marks are for. > > Must be getting old - I don't remember this line in _I_. Kudos to SKZB > for this like-line and to you for slipping it between my shoulder blades. <snip> > A related point - Dragaeran memory is impressive. Sethra has detailed > recollection of incidental conversations from (too lazy to check Alexx's > timeline) many hundreds of years ago (_Yendi_) which Vlad probably > misreports after a few years. The storage capacity, chemical stability, > filing heuristics, brain cell lifetime, ... involved are a triumph for > those lame guys (the Shaqs of the Dragaeran universe). I beg leave to slip the aforementioned line between your shoulder blades again. To think that Sethra is representative of the average Dragaeran is much too generous to said Dragaeran. I believe Sethra to be an extraordinary sample of Dragaeran: extremely powerful, long lived, undead, wise, etc. But otherwise, I would characterize Dragaeran memory as equal to human memory (although there has never been mention of mental ailments), with the notable difference that Dragaerans live considerably longer. Jose -- Jose Marquez jhereg69 at earthlink.net