... (and some stuff on Athyra)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Davis, Iain E." <feaelin at kemenel.org>
Cc: <dragaera at dragaera.info>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 12:20 PM
Subject: RE: ... (and some stuff on Athyra)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark A Mandel [mailto:mam at theworld.com]
> Well, he's not exactly lying, imho. He was working with that
> army, but not as a regular soldier, and ISTR that he wasn't
> sworn or anything like that (I'm AFB).
>
>I was going to cite the memory issues (which others already have), but I
>like this better.  In a sense, he was being _technically_ honest, while
>not disclosing full information.
>
>He was more like a secret agent, using the his side's army as cover,
>until he was able to position himself to complete his mission. :).  From
>his, Morrolan's, and Sethra's POV...he wasn't in the army.  Nearly
>everyone else would have said he was in the army. :)
>
>Perception or point of view changes many things. :)
>
>Brust is spoiling me.  I'm coming to expect the characters to have
>points of view or differing opinions of something that happened in the
>other fiction I read....:)

I like this idea.  Remember that Vlad has a history of truthful lies.  I
think it was a Jhereg that he first decribed his testifing under the orb.
"I believe he killed himself."

AkodoBob
-who doesn't drink and thus is glad to talk about something else.