On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, David Silberstein wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Charlie Smith wrote: > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Philip Hart" > > > > > >> 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... > > > > The reason it says "else" is specifically because the statement was > made *after* /Orca/, and was meant to exclude the revelation in that > one particular book. > > Of course, the disclaimers about "as far as he knows" means that he > might well come up with a better idea, which is true for all authors. > And after all, if he comes up with such a better idea, he wouldn't > want to spoil it by giving it away ahead of time, now would he? Given that I think Mario's a figment or dead, when SKZB has said ex cathedra (or ex sofa or wherever) that he lives, from my point of view it would reverse spoil the revelation to give it away now. Should SKZB come out with a statement confirming my Sethra-killed- Tortaalik hypothesis, I pledge to publicly, streunously disavow it.