Dragaera

OK, then . . .

David Silberstein davids at Kithrup.COM
Fri Oct 8 16:43:57 PDT 2004

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, Mia McDavid wrote:

>
>Mario is still alive.  

check

>Mario is not pretending to be anyone else. 

check

>We have seen Mario. 

Wait, what?  Not according to this guy:

   http://dragaera.info/mailinglists/archive.cgi/1/981

] From: Steven Brust
] Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 15:53:53 -0700

] At 05:41 PM 7/10/2002 -0500, Matthew Hunter wrote:

] >Have we met Mario face-to-face in the Vlad books (even if
] >disguised as someone else)?

] No.

(*fx, chorus*: "But what does *he* know?")

>I think it's time for a real good game of "Where's Mario?". 
>Instead of finding a tiny figure in a welter of tiny figures, we
>must look for some unnamed, briefly appearing Jhereg who is Mario,
>hiding in plain sight.  It's a challenge, guys! 

Obviously, Mario is someone we *haven't* seen.  So Mario must have
been the guy disguised as a minor noble of the House of the Orca in
/Jhereg/, who Vlad didn't even notice, and therefore never
mentioned.  And like that.


>(This'll *really* give Steve something to laugh at . . .)
>

Well, this is true.