David Silberstein wrote: >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? > > Well, Paarfi did (in, I think, chapter the 18th of Paths of the Dead) use Tazendra as an example of writing in an ironic mode, in which the character is portrayed in a manner inconsistent with how he or she really would have been. From that, I take it that Tazendra's portrayal is not meant to be taken entirely seriously, and that we should recognise that her characterisation is, in part, a plot device or narrative mode. But i could be wrong. -- J A Dusty Sayers Home Page http://www.sayersnet.com/~dusty/ Rescue the Princess http://www.sayersnet.com/~dusty/rescue/ 'Everybody generalizes from one example. At least, I do.' -- Steven Brust