Dragaera

Issola, Dragon, J Whedon, and Chandler's The Long Goodbye

Tue Mar 23 22:47:43 PST 2004


On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, David Silberstein wrote:

>
> Since Khaavren was told to "think of something" by Uttrik e'Lanya, who
> was a Dragon, his reply (which he did not actually say) was "You are
> a Dragon; kill someone."
>
> What he actually did was to speak to Tazendra; reminding her that Dzur
> do not take shit from anyone, and that she should therefore not be
> restrained by "fashion" from taking a lackey (Mica).
>
> (TPG, chapter 19, pg 207 -- booksearch is nifty)


One of the best-written moments in _TPG_ - the characters, their
sympathies and indifferences and modes of thought and speech fairly
leap from the page.