M J wrote: > From: David Silberstein <davids at kithrup.com> > Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 18:14:45 -0800 (PST) > > >>Anyone else have any interesting dreams about Dragaera? > > > Well, er, I once dreamed that I was at the Neverending Party > at Castle Black and that I was trying to make Aliera a cup of > tea. (She kept saying that of course _I_ wouldn't know how to > make one correctly, but she drank it anyway. There is no > pleasing that woman.) > > Oh. Wait. You said _interesting_ dreams. 'Fraid not. > That reminds me of a joke. Stop me if you've heard this one. A string goes into a bar, but he's kicked out; "we don't serve your kind here". So he tied himself off and teased up his hair, and went back in. "Hey, aren't you that same string I just kicked out of here?" "No sir, I'm a frayed knot." Sorry. No, really, I feel awfully. I should have resisted. I should delete this passage right now. > >>I dreamed that Morrolan's flying castle slipped through >>a time-warp to the 14th Vallista Reign. > > > Tangent: are Dragaerans _allowed_ to time-travel? Wouldn't > the gods put a pretty heavy stricture on that sort of thing? > I can see a lot of people wanting to send a Jhereg back in > time, pointed right straight at Adron pre-purple-stones. > > **SPOILER FOR ZELAZNY'S NIGHT IN THE LONESOME OCTOBER** The fanged one showed up to the party as a closer. When questioned about his strange allegiance, his response was that some of us like things the way they are; the implication I got was that while the old gods might make things generally more evil and chaotic, Herr Dracul would be a smaller fish in such a pond. I don't doubt there would be a great many folks willing to bet that things wouldn't be so much better as different... and different is bad. Kisc