On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Casey Rousseau wrote: > You can read ?all? of Philips posts at: > http://dragaera.info/mailinglists/archive.cgi?1:aas:8621 Not something anyone sane would recommend doing, of course. > The following two in particular may be the ones Jose is referring to. They > show up relatively early in my local archives. > > http://dragaera.info/mailinglists/archive.cgi?1:mss:8621 > http://dragaera.info/mailinglists/archive.cgi?1:mss:8633 Hope my snideness in the first post was at least somewhat justified. These posts focussed on the more paranoid aspects of the Paarfi-is-Sethra's-mouthpiece theory. To reiterate briefly and save searching time (if any) - Let us assume Paarfi is accurate, or rather that he is not pulling his histories from a nether region. Paarfi notes in an early volume that he has relied on (letter-based?) interviews with Sethra. Sethra does nothing lightly. Paarfi gives away a lot of state secrets/personal info that should have led to his and his works' suppression if not officially sanctioned or ghost-authored. Paarfi knows a lot of things only Sethra could know (esp. in the Piroiad). Paarfi reports things beneficial on the whole to Sethra's rep, and to that of her friends. Paarfi goes to a lot of trouble however to (from a stranger's viewpoint) mock Morrolan, whereas the text makes much more sense as Sethra ribbing M. As we now see, the histories lead to showing the J as deadly enemies of Dragaera, useful propaganda from Sethra's viewpoint (here assuming the last volume comes out in a continuing state of war, i.e., Vlad hasn't permanently dealt [wrote "dealth" at first cause it's Vlad] with the J in volume 17 of the Vladiad). (plus probably other points I've forgotten...) >From here one can go on to ask, what if Sethra doesn't have a stake in the truth? What's a perhaps more plausible set of events than those in _FHYA_, which relies on some coincidences and screw-ups by S?