--- Iván Rebollo <ivanrebollo at hotmail.com> wrote: > Hans wrote: > > >If you think about it, 19 is the real important number. The 17 > houses, > >humans and the Serioli make 19. So 19 books makes more since then > 17. You > >need to think "outside the Cycle." > > Then you must count the Jenoine, mustn't you? The way I look at it, 19 makes perfect sense -- not because of humans and serioli (since you'd then have to include not only the Jenoine, but the cat centaurs, half-breeds, actual dragons, actual jhereg, etc.), but because of the way SKZB writes his books. He usually has a prologue, 17 chapters, and an epilogue. You could look at _Taltos_ as being the prologue and _The Last Contract_ as being the epilogue. - Donald Seagraves ===== "On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -- Charles Babbage __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com