At 11:02 AM 8/19/2003 -0500, pddb at demesne.com wrote: >On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 01:26:06AM -0700, Steven Brust wrote: > > At 10:35 PM 8/18/2003 -0700, David Silberstein wrote: > > > On the other hand, he also says: "The > > >two artifacts were, or are to be, created together --", which > > >ambiguifies the causality and sequence. > > > > Mark? Pamela? Can he say that? > >Sure, as long as he's being whimsical about it. Okay, I can accept that. Has it occurred to you lately what a perfect, and perfectly wonderful word "whimsical" is?