From: David Silberstein <davids at kithrup.com> On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, David Goldfarb wrote: >>From: "Steven Brust" <skzb at dreamcafe.com> >>>Okay, I'll cop to Teresa. But a little research will almost certainly >>>produce a better candidate for Prince Tapman. >> >>Tappan King, perhaps? > >I confess, I have very nearly never heard of this individual. What is >his provenance? Well, he's written a novel and some short stories, he's taught at Clarion West, and he was editor of _Twilight Zone_ magazine for a while. I think he's also edited some horror anthologies. He's one of those people whose name I'd sort of picked up by osmosis without really knowing what he'd done.... >My reasoning, besides the fact that it was in conjunction with the >Lady Tersa of Haynels, was that "Patrick" =(shortened)=> "Pat" >=(reversed)=> "Tap" =(prepended to "man")=> "Tapman". > >And of course, the man is a Prince because he's Steve's patron, as it >were. That's pretty reasonable, and I'd have bought it if Steve himself hadn't told us to look elsewhere. For my own part, I won't insult list-members by pretending that they need to be told how to get >from "Tappan King" to "Prince Tapman". :-) -- David Goldfarb <*>| "Speak softly, drive a Sherman tank goldfarb at ocf.berkeley.edu | Laugh hard, it's a long way to the bank." goldfarb at csua.berkeley.edu | -- TMBG