On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 gomi at speakeasy.net wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: David Silberstein >> Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 07:29 PM > >> And to some extent, Paarfi undermines his protrayal of her as >> a naif with the scene in Gyorg Lavode's room, or for that >> matter, writing about her when she is a Lavode herself. > >It seemed pretty clear to me that the whole point of the Gyorg >Lavode's room scene was to establish that Tazendra is, in fact, >putting us all on, and that Sethra asked her to dispense with that >put-on for a few moments. It never even occurred to me that Paarfi >might be making a serious attempt to portray her as a for-real >naif. > Huh. I wonder if SKZB will deign to let us know if his intent was for Tazendra to have been putting us on, or for Paarfi to have been the one responsible for a certain inconsistency in the way he portrayed Tazendra?