Casey Rousseau wrote: > He doesn't submit the notebook that was the source material for TPG until > after the "present" time of the Vladiad so far. (20 years or so after the > end of Issola). I believe it was in Orca, however, that Vlad offers to be cut into pieces (forgive the lack of a direct quote, as I'm quite far from my books at present) in service to Kiera (for bringing honey for Klava, as I recall). Kiera then comments that Vlad's been reading Paarfi. So he must have read some of Paarfi's work somewhere; early drafts of TPG or FHYA? Maybe Vlad has some as-yet undiscussed connections to the publishing industry? Steve still hasn't written the Vlad book wherein Vlad hunts down some long-winded historian, discovering in the process that he enjoys torture (from the author-on-author interview at the end of, uh, one of those two books). <grin> Chris "Life is the nightmare that leaves its mark upon you in order to prove that it is, in fact, real." -Thomas Ligotti- 'The Sect of the Idiot'