Dragaera

New to the list...(Impressions after re-reading it all)

Fri Aug 27 11:18:23 PDT 2004

>Just a note to both of you:
<snip>
>These are commonly called spoilers, and the space used to obscure
>them is called spoiler space.

I hope we didn't spoil anything in our brief conversation.  I have, of 
course, been lurking on the list for several weeks before posting, as 
netiquette dictates, and I've been very glad that spoilers for are marked, 
as I'm waiting a bit before getting _Sethra Lavode_ (in a impressive show of 
personal restraint).

>And the
>gender of the master is hardly the worst inconsistency involved,
>particularly since we know Draegaran has a gender-neutral pronoun set.

True enough, my original post was meant entirely in jest, with Tazendra's 
reaction to being called a transvestive in the back of my mind.  I suspect 
it would be a short but bloody affair.

I personally feel that in addition to adding to the personality of the 
narrators, "malicious inconsistencies" also make a nice excuse that the 
author can use to keep from getting too hung up in previous books and 
instead concentrate on the important part, generating new material.

Besides, people who post on the internet about a single pronoun obviously 
have too much time on their hands.  :)

--Andrew

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