> -----Original Message----- > From: Steven Brust [mailto:skzb at dreamcafe.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 7:53 PM > To: Philip Hart > Cc: dragaera at dragaera.info > Subject: RE: Question about Devera > > > At 04:47 PM 3/5/2003 -0800, Philip Hart wrote: > > >On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Steven Brust wrote: > > > > > At 05:33 PM 3/5/2003 -0500, Gaertk at aol.com wrote: > > > > > > > >So what was the reason behind the > stream-of-3-consciousnesses bit > > > >in _Issola_? > > > > > > If you don't know, then they didn't work. > > > >Couldn't it (they, whatever) have worked without his consciously > >knowing? > > Well, I dunno. If the reader goes, "What the hell was *that* > doing in > there?" then I have to say it didn't work, at least by my standards. As I was reading it I thought that surely Devera was going to show up in there. So maybe the point of it was to make us think Devera was going to make her appearance, thus misleading us from when she makes her true appearance. Rachel