On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Jot Powers wrote: #On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 05:33:39PM -0600, David Rodemaker wrote: #> Personally, the whole series has been ruined now that I find out that St. #> Brust isn't writing this out longhand with quill and parchment... # #Neal Stephenson did this for _Quicksilver_. IMO, the book suffered as #a result of it. # #I think it made him too committed to the words he had put down, and #he isn't the least loquacious of authors to begin with. # #I shudder to think what would happen if this happened to Paarfi :) What do you think P. uses? Options: Manual dictation (a secretary) Magical dictation (an animated quill) Other... ? -- Mark A. Mandel