--- David Silberstein <davids at Kithrup.COM> wrote: > Note: A quote from /Sethra Lavode/ lurks below. It's not much of > a spoiler, but it is a spoiler nonetheless, so this is the > requisite warning. ... > Something that occurs to me is that it is interesting that Vlad > cannot quite recall his boss-victim's name. It might just be a > conincidence of T_____ having a hard-to-pronounce name, but another > possibility is that Vlad used some method -- almost certainly > witchcraft, since his sorcery isn't that strong, and he didn't know > Daymar at the time, although he might have administered some > self-inflicted head trauma -- to mildly scramble or wipe out parts > of his own memory after committing the murder, perhaps only on a > temporary basis. So when he's arrested and interrogated for the > crime under the Orb, he can answer questions like "Did you kill > T_____?" with "I don't know what you're talking about", and have it > be true. > > Embroidering on this idea a bit, perhaps the memory-witchcraft was > to transfer some of his memories to Loiosh, or to use Loiosh to > suppress those memories. Other than the trouble with the name, he > seems to have no problems remembering the deed itself now - or does > he? Perhaps it *was* erased permanently, and he only remembers > what Loiosh told him about it. > > Anyway, that's my pararectal ideation of the day. Some of the other speculations I've read here might turn out to be true, but this is the first one that's brought a smile to my face. Jerry Friedman __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail