From: David Silberstein <davids at kithrup.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 21:18:10 -0800 (PST) >On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, M J wrote: >>So, I was rereading the Amber series the other day, and I >>noticed that Corwin's sword's name is Grayswandir. >> >>"Blackwand!" flashed across my brain, and I began to make >>other demented connections, such as TALL, dresses in BLACK AND >>SILVER, and IS A BADASS SORCERER AND SWORDSMAN. Morrolan >>e'Drien > >Well. I bow to you, for I believe you have found a significant >connexion here. > >In addition, I note that Morrolan, like another certain character, >woke up (as it were) not knowing who he really was, in several >different respects. Coo. True. He did. Also, his brother's name was Molric, and Corwin's brother's name was Eric. The real fly in the pudding here is that Molric seems to be largely unobjectionable, whilst Eric was pretty icky. >>descended from Khaavren, who is of course the Dragaeran version of >>Benedict. (... Khaavren may well be more glompable than Benedict, >>but I cannot swear to this.) > >I am afraid that here, I cannot agree. Benedict is the General Who >Never Dies, and thus, you perceive, for reasons perhaps best known to >himself, has undergone a sex-change and become Sethra Lavode. ... In that case, Sethra is muchly to be preferred, as she has spawned no Dara. (Although she did hang out with Sethra the Younger, who is also fairly BLARGH EW.) >Is Sethra Lavode glompable? ... Well, yes. But she, unlike Daymar, must be asked first. >>Anyway, what I think I'm trying to say is, I need someone to >>smack me and tell me "NO STOP THIS IS WRONG AND SILLY," and >>where better to find this than on the Dragaera List? > >NO STOP [YOU STARTED OUT WELL BUT] THIS IS [NOW] WRONG AND SILLY!!!!! <helpfully> Ghostwheel reminds me of the Orb! Although I have to say that there is no Zerika-figure in Amber at all, unless it's the Unicorn, which it isn't. ¬ MJ, resolving to be less silly, but pr'y still wrong