On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 17:06:38 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >--- David Silberstein <davids at Kithrup.COM> wrote: >> On Mon, 19 Jul 2004, Scott Schultz wrote: >> >> >Does _Sethra Lavode_ contain any revelations about Laszlo and his >> >metaphysical history? >> > >> >> It does not. >> >> >Anyway, no matter how old he is, he can't be alive in Vlad's time >> >some 250 years after (give or take). > >I don't see why not. The Sorceress in Green has managed at least >10 times a normal Dragaeran lifespan, and Laszlo is an accomplished >witch who knows someone with access to considerable sorcerous >power (understatement), so he could have a long lifespan. > >> >> Another amusing time-travel idea: Zerika is meeting her lover *in >> the past*. So Laszlo is indeed already dead by Vlad's time - >> Zerika is just seeing him before he dies. > >Heh. > >As long as we're doing amusing time-travel ideas, I would be amused >if the House of the Phoenix gets rebuilt by someone traveling forward >in time and bringing back Phoenixes to be their own ancestors. > "I'm my own grandpa. I'm my own grandpa. It sounds funny I know, but it really is so, I am my own grandpa." :-)