On Apr 12, 2005 1:41 AM, Carolyn P. <bowofanariel at yahoo.com> wrote: > > _____________________________ > > _________________________________ > > _____________________________________ > > > > blue line to my left, space above out of bounds, i write: > > ah, you do know how strange that sounds right? naked? crawling? ;oX I didn't mean in in that way. I'll have to get in on a web site somewhere. It's a profile of her body with her looking at you. She's an Amazon like chick from a story that I want to write someday. > > at any rate, i was wondering if you or any nice list folks might have some > page numbers laying around of descriptions of Castle Black in the books. > I'm a big DnD nerd so i always think of Netheril style floating castles > built on upside down chopped-off mountain tops, and i know Mr Brust played > DnD once upon a time.... but I dont know if thats what he had in mind or > anything. I did a little investigating and Vlad describes teleporting to > the center of the courtyard of Castle Black (forgot to write page number > down:o( ), but if you're a floating Castle, how do you have a courtyard? I > also SEEM to recall a description of him landing in the 'courtyard' and > seeing nothing below his feet, but feeling a 'ground' beneath him as he > walked, which kindof throws my Netheril idea out the window. Then theres > the part of me that thinks there are things in the 'courtyard', like > floating pillars or something, that sortof dilineate a path to walk or what > a real courtyard might look like if there was a ground..... > > but maybe i just always thought there should be, and there arent. > > who knows? > > -carol the nutter > I always thought of Castle Black when V arrives there as him arriving with in the walls of the court yard. When I picture the view from far away, I try to imagin it with out the "upside down mountain," but it looks funny. There is definatly nothing below V when he is in the "court yard." I don't have the text quotes, but this I definatly know. -- -C "Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one has not time to write down." -- (Louis) Hector Berlioz (1803-69), French composer