On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, David Silberstein wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Philip Hart wrote: > > > > >Note that SKZB has said that no one else is anyone else. > > Well, yeah, but he's said a lot of things, and what does he know > about it all anyway? > > >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. > > But... if that's the case, then who was Aliera boinking in /Jhereg/? > > [ thinks through implications ] > > Oh. Oh, my. Oh, deary me. > > You know, all of that duel-provocation *does* seem to be a way of > strongly hinting at a certain degree of sexual tension, now that I > think about it... Exactly. It would be beneath Sethra's dignity to bop someone practically a child - but she could put on her Mario-mask. This might also explain Morrollan's conspicuous lack of a paramour in Vlad's time...