---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Philip Hart <philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:25:05 -0800 (PST) >On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Damien Sullivan wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 12:26:34PM -0600, Matthew Klahn wrote: >> >> > And, Damien, as for "honorable nobles" not condescending to "stoop to >> > hidden identities", have you *read* Orca? >> >> Of course. But that, dear sir, is an exception. > > >Dumb question, but is Sethra technically a noble? I can certainly imagine >she's been knighted or whatever, but maybe titles, uhh, expire upon death. >Or she might not have bothered. I believe I recall Vlad saying she likes >to be announced as just SL - maybe he doesn't realize there's nothing more >to be announced... I imagine that she likes to be announced as "merely" Sethra Lavode because, frankly, after THAT name, anything else is superfluous and anticlimactic. She could add "Arbiter of the Ninety Universes and Beater-Up of Nyarlathotep" and it still wouldn't pack as much punch as the stark "Sethra Lavode" does. Consider that "James Bond, spy and lady-killer and gambler" doesn't sum up nearly as much spine-tingling as "Bond. _James_ Bond." does. ¬ MJ