SPOILERS FOR ISSOLA --- Kenneth Gorelick <pulmon at comcast.net> wrote: > > On Feb 24, 2004, at 11:13 AM, Jot Powers wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 08:43:44PM -0800, mary > whalen wrote: > >> > >> I don't agree that the dragon seen at the end > of > >> _Issola_ was Devera in another form. I think the > > > > [*snip*] > > > > Regrettably, Steven doesn't agree with you. > > > > But what does he know? > > > > > "Monty wins the bannana" is NOT an unequivocal > assertion of congruency > knowing Steve's > prediliction for misdirection, I would not be > surprised to learn the > "Monty wins the bannana" was not intended to confirm > Monty's theory. > Looking back on messages from this subject from the past, I agree that the banana message doesn't necessarily confirm the claim for Devera's claim to dragonhood (little d). If he had said "won the cigar" it would not have the same room for interpretation. However, the substitution may simply mean that this idea is just a bunch of monkey business. It seems unlikely to me to be Devera because she already appeared once before in _Issola_, she acts bloodthirsty (more like Kieron than a nice young girl) and Sethra says Aliera should know the dragon's identity. In some of the discussion on this in the past, it seems to me that there was some confusion over the use of "she" by Sethra when discussing the dragon with Aliera. I think that the "she" referred to is the Necromancer, who is being discussed in psychic communication right after Sethra was talking about the dragon. If so, the dragon is just as likely to be male as female. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools