On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Philip Hart wrote: >On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, David Silberstein wrote: > >> >> ><Auden snipped> >> > >> >> I don't know if this has been commented on yet, but at the end of >> >> _TLOCB_ Chapter 64, Grassfog and Iatha have a conversation about >> >> "the social niceties" and belonging. It occurs to me that while >> >> Grassfog is probably male (pg. 161), and at least one of Thong >> >> and Iatha is probably female (pg. 131), there's a fair chance that >> >> Grassfog and Iatha are a same-sex couple. >> > > >> But you could also go back and check when Grassfog & Iatha are >> introduced, when they have slid down the ropes, and see that Grassfog >> is male and Iatha is female. So they are almost certainly just a >> mixed-house couple. > >Nice try to kill my beautiful theory with an inconvenient fact, David >- but you've failed miserably (I hope). You might take into consideration the possiblity of constructing your theories on a somewhat more solid foundation, as the Vallista might say, and to continue the metaphor somewhat, using materials that have a certain weight and heft to them, and using structual designs that layer said materials one upon the other in the approved fashion. Not that I've ever let that stop *me*, but nevertheless. > Piro's band includes Grassfog, Iatha, Ritt, and Belly. The last >two could be a gay couple. Bah! And one might secretly be Mario, and the other the reincarnation of Empress Undauntra. On what basis do you pretend that that particular notion is even vaguely related to anything remotely resembling contextual fact? > > And the first two could come, not just from the same House, but >from the same house, if you catch my drift... > I must again ask from where you think this to be even slightly probable given the evidence we actually in point of fact have to work with?