From: "Ruhlen, Rachel Louise (UMC-Student)" <RuhlenR at missouri.edu> >Remember in _PG_ where they go after Kathana and Paarfi launches into a >diatribe about this really rotten play he saw one time where the main >character NEVER APPEARED ON STAGE but it wasn't going to be like that in >THIS story? I think Mario is that character. Um, I don't mean to be insulting or anything, but I do want to make sure that you are aware of Samuel Beckett's play _Waiting for Godot_? It's quite well-known. The two main characters spend the whole play standing around waiting, and the title character never does appear. My impression is that Brust was riffing on that. -- David Goldfarb <*>|"The only thing better than messing with somebody's goldfarb at ocf.berkeley.edu | sense of reality is messing with a whole LOTTA | people's sense of reality...." goldfarb at csua.berkeley.edu | -- J. Michael Straczynski