On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, mary whalen wrote: > > --- Philip Hart <philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, mary whalen wrote: > > > Did the events of _Taltos_ occur days before or Vlad's recounting of > them (relative to the events of _Dragon_ and not the recounting of > them)? I thought it was Vlad's describing the events. Remember, at the > end of _Taltos_ Vlad says that he's met Morrolan a few times after the > end of their journey and that he and Aliera are all right. So it's been > at least a few weeks or more since he finished his journey that he tells > about it. The timeframe shifts in _Dragon_ come fast and furious, which is perhaps why I hadn't noticed this before. Once more for the skeptical: Vlad, well after _Taltos_, says once he had been talking with the box, that the next morning he remembered something, wondered if someone had messed with his memory, asked Loiosh, who mocked him and mentioned some ritual Morrolan had performed, which V had forgotten as well. He then says, "I had forgotten something that happened just days before, yet now, more than three years later", he remembers the conversation about it. It seems to me this doesn't accord with the point you mention. I'm going to nominate this for a minor crack in case Mark Mandel is listening. "It is the little rift within the lute That by and by will make the music mute."