----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark A. Mandel" <thnidu at yahoo.com> To: "Philip Hart" <philiph at slac.stanford.edu>; <Dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 8:22 PM Subject: Re: questions about Paarfi > --- Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote: > > I believe in one Paarfi, accurate and indivisible, of which the triune > > aspects are Paarfi the Historian, Paarfi the Romancer, and Sethra. > > > Brusts, plural > > First of all, we have at least two Steven Brusts to deal with. One is the > author whose books reviewers review and we buy, and to whom publishers pay > royalties. He writes of Paarfi as his creation [TPG487]. > > Then there is the translator who interviews Paarfi [FHYA548-553], thus becoming > a character in the world of the books written by Brust the author. > > There seems to be a third Brust as well: the interviewer, the "fool" who paid > Vlad to tell him his life story and convinced him no one would hear about it > [Ath9; also Orc16?]; or he may be the second in another guise. > > http://www.speakeasy.org/~mamandel/Cracks-and-Shards/cracks.html#Brusts > > > > -- Mark A. Mandel > http://cracksandshards.com > a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website > > Now you are treading on the ground Heinlein walked in "The Number of the Beast". Has the act of writing these characters resulted in their creation on another plane? And if so, does that mean that Steven has in essence created himself? And I thought I was narcissistic! Jeff G.