----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip Hart" <philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> To: <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 3:58 PM Subject: Re: Humans and the Cycle > > > 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. It becomes hard to trust such statements after Orca... Of course it is obvious when you go through and reread all the Vladiad...