--- Philip Hart <philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> wrote: > > > On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, mary whalen wrote: > > > > > --- Philip Hart <philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, mary whalen wrote: > > > > 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. > I think I would have to reread some of the books in chronological order to get any more insight into the time relations between the books. One possibility is that Vlad misremembers the exact time between the two events years later when he's telling about his memory lapse. If the events between when he left the Paths and when he finished telling about it were fairly hectic a month or two might not seem that much to him later on. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you’re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com