On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 14:55:54 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, lazarus wrote: > >>On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 19:33:14 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >> >>> >>>This page: >>> >>> http://www.mojoworld.net/sil/ref/books.html >>> >>>States that: >>> >>> Dzurlord is really only noteable for the introduction written by >>> Steven Brust. The rest of the text is not his direct work. This >>> book is out of print but you can read the introduction here. >>> >>>(where "here" is a link to the following page:) >>> >>> http://www.mojoworld.net/sil/treats/dzurlordintro.html >> >>Also, Steve recently said that the intro isn't canonical, IIRC. >> >> > >No, he said : > >] Well, not having established the canon, I don't think it's fair for >] me to say. I never said that bits and pieces of Jarhead and Yentil >] were not canonical. > >] Myself, I tend to prefer to see artillery used to support infantry >] action, but it really depends on the technology of the field piece >] in question. Well, poo. > >Which is only slightly better than "Tee hee" in terms of its >information content. Bah. I nearly think he is indulging his >famous tendency towards being deliberately obfuscatory. Yup. -- lazarus "Folly it may seem," said Haldir. "Indeed, in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him." -- J.R.R. Tolkien