in response to what FRIEDA2133.aol.com wrote on Tue, 12 Oct 2004 # #I was wondering why Sethra said Lord Taltos and not Vlad. #This may be a bad sign for the state of my mind, but I actually #counted the words in the following sentence: # #'She smiled as if sharing a joke with herself and said, "You are #most welcome, Lord Taltos." ' # #Seventeen, of course. It would have been sixteen, if Sethra had #said Vlad. Mark A Mandel wrote on Sun, 17 Oct 2004 18:30:28 -0400 >The adjective I use for the truly pathological form of this condition is >"omen-ridden". Hi, It is probably contagious too. What would your definition of the truly pathological form be? Would the definition involve doing another reread of The Phoenix Guards through Issola and writing down occurrences of paintings, recipes and such (culture and art)? It may not be too late...I have not started yet. I was *not* planning on counting all the sentences that are 17 words long. I hope that is a good sign. Bye. Linda G.