On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Joy Jennifer Nicholson wrote: @> This is the first I've heard of the theory that Paarfi is Sethra. @> I like better the idea that Sethra has been feeding Paarfi an accurate @> account of the histories which he is relating. It seems very like her @> to want to have the correct info out there, but in a form that very @> few people would actually believe to be entirely true. Even the more @> fantastic parts of Paarfi's tales may have come from Sethra. The right @> people, those who would understand the truth and know what to do with it, @> will read it and see it for what it is. The other readers are just an @> incidental side-audience. In this way, she can disseminate vital information @> without it being obviously attributed to her. @> @> I like this theory. Well, this would require that Paarfi's account is accurate, which itself is kind of a dubious proposition. On the other hand, it would definitely make sense for Sethra to feed Paarfi misleading information so that the public would never find out The Awful Truth[0]. [0] "I'll tell them I just handed you Blackwand. There's no need to get into all that stuff with the tea-cosy and the army of animated lead miniatures."