Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> writes: > On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 FRIEDA2133 at aol.com wrote: > >> Today's cooking extract is from Emperor Tortaalik I in Dragaera City. >> >> "His Majesty looked down at his plate, where a few lonely fish >> bones were floating in a sea of butter and lemon. He wiped his >> lips on his sleeve" >> >> Five Hundred Years After, Chapter the Eighth, page 100 > AFB, but the booksearch yields: > > "a few lonely fish bones were floating (belly up, perhaps) in a sea of > butter and lemon. He then wiped his lips on his sleeve..." > > I wonder if the scanner added a few garnishes... At "belly up" I'm > suddenly in Gormenghast. Some of the books in booksearch are the submission manuscript, rather than a scan of the published version. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b at dd-b.net>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com/> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/> <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>