On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, David Silberstein wrote: > > Speaking of Loiosh not being a dragon, I've been saving up the > follwing for a while. It's from the Publisher's Weekly review of > /Issola/, written, I see, by one Peter Cannon [1]: [snip] > Accompanied by his faithful familiar, the funny pocket dragon, > Loiosh, Taltos as usual relies on his psychic and magical > strengths as well as his dazzling swordplay. Ok, so Vlad doesn't do much dazzling even knifeplay in _I_. But say you were being charged by the word and writing for a mostly unititiate audience - how would you better describe L in three words? He does play the funny pocket dragon role, at least as I understand it. Maybe he practically invented the role.