--- Kenneth Stone <knots4kcs at yahoo.com> wrote: ... > As to the Devera/Dragon thing, I always > assumed that it was the same dragon from > the paths of the dead, and any recognition > would come from that. Recall that Steve > said that nobody was anybody else. > > I don't understand where the whole > Dragon-Devera thing started. Please > help? >From rasfw: <http://groups.google.com/groups?as_umsgid=3B565028.844182AD%40dreamcafe.com> or <http://tinyurl.com/26x2z>. [Begin quotation.] From: Steven Brust (skzb at dreamcafe.com) Subject: Re: Great Weapons again (Re: Issola Comments/Spoilers ) View: Complete Thread (109 articles) Original Format Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Date: 2001-07-18 20:12:48 PST Damien Raphael Sullivan wrote: > >chapter 2 of _Jhereg_) and the Empire wrongly concludes that Mario did > >a certain assassination (page 192 in TBoJ; end of chapter 2 in _Yendi_). > > No, the Imperial investigators said "Mario did it". This could easily be > analogous to "Act of God" on an insurance claim. Basically "we don't know", > as opposed to "that specific Mario guy we're looking for". Good catch. Damien Raphael Sullivan wrote: > >Speaking of gods, just who/what was that dragon?? > > Monty Ashley, originator of the Devera FAQ, suggests it's Devera. Monty wins the bannana. [End quotation.] If I ever said or did anything that annoyed you, Steven, you have just had your revenge, because I could *not* figure out why I couldn't find this quotation with Google Groups. Until I figured out that it was the typo in "banana". Jerry Friedman __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools