Dragaera

Humans and the Cycle

Wed Jan 14 14:01:23 PST 2004

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. ;)

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