On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 01:58:32PM -0800, Philip Hart <philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Noam Izenberg wrote: > > On Jan 14, 2004, at 4:23 PM, lazarus wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 13:20:37 -0800 (PST), you wrote: > > >> On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, lazarus wrote: > > >>> On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 12:43:14 -0800 (PST), you wrote: > > >>>>> And just how /has/ Paarfi managed to be that good a swordsman, to > > >>>>> survive all those duels over the years? > > >>>> That's easy... It's the deep dark secret that Monsieur Brust > > >>>> doesn't > > >>>> want you to find out -- Paarfi is Mario. > > >>> Nope. I am now convinced, without a shred of evidence whatsoever, > > >>> that he's Sethra. > > >> You have the evidence that I'm pushing the theory... > > > There is that. I am now convince, on Philip's testimony, that Paarfi > > > is Sethra. :-D > > Great. Imperials to doughnuts, somewhere, sometime we'll > > have a scene narrated by Paarfi where Sethra talks to Mario, in > > which we will learn exactly nothing. > Note that SKZB has said that no one else is anyone else. > Also note that in my version of the Disaster Sethra invents Mario as a > cover for her murder of Tortaalik. In that weak sense Mario is Sethra. Which nicely provides a motive for <spoiler>, especially if you credit Sethra with a little foresight. I like it. But Mario is still Kragar. ;) -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp