Damn. Don't know whether to begin the beatings, or applaud. <sigh> Decisions, decisions..... Nicely done. :) Chris "Life is the nightmare that leaves its mark upon you in order to prove that it is, in fact, real." -Thomas Ligotti- 'The Sect of the Idiot' > Now that we know that our dreamweaver is a closet devotée of television > shows, a horrible thought has occurred to me. Not only does he > currently indulge in cop shows, but perhaps he started on less evolved > fare of the sixties, such as "My Favorite Martian" or "My Mother the > Car". > > Now, take this knowledge with Mr. Brust's obvious interest in horror > and fantasy and his hypothetical universe where reincarnation is a > reality, and the future may be revealed. > > After all, we have seen three things in the Dragaeran universe: one may > be incarnated into a form quite different from the original (Dolivar > the Dragon into Vlad the Easterner); Dragaera was settled by humans who > seem to share a common heritage with us, as in Kelly's discovery of > Marxist tracts that revealed to him the truth; and scientific > developments occur (the orb was evolved). > > So, one can imagine Mr. Brust taking us either to an earthly past that > is troublingly like the one in which we live, or a future which, like > ontogeny, has recapitulated phylogeny. > > In this scenario our hero is reincarnated not as an Easterner, not as a > Human, but as a murderous motor vehicle. In this tale, obviously > directed at a future television serious, he will be known as.... > > > > > Vlad, the Impala. >