On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 Gaertk at aol.com wrote: >"Casey Rousseau" <casey at the-bat.net> writes: > >> The one thing I'm surprised you didn't pull in was the >> mention of her genealogy block. I recall it being >> something like nothing entering in and nothing coming out. > >It named her parents, but I don't know if that includes which >House they were (and they almost certainly predate lineage >signifiers in thier names). > >FHYA, chapter 8, p. 103(mmpb): >"as if her maternal and paternal ancestor had appeared from >nowhere at all, begotten her, and vanished." > You know, it's kinda creepy how certain themes and topics of conversation recur. I remembered we'd had this conversation before, and on checking my log files, found that almost exactly a year ago, I wrote, concerning Sethra's lineage block: On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 davids at kithrup.com wrote: >No names mentioned at all. > >I wonder if she is perhaps an uncreated looping time-traveller, like >[spoiler] from Pratchett's "Pyramids". >