Steve Brust <skzb at dreamcafe.com> writes: > On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 20:54 -0700, Mark A. Mandel wrote: > >> Steven Brust: >> > Oh, and unless I'm misremembering, the >> > scrap of poem in the introduction to The Kleenex Guards is >> > Heptadecasyllabic. >> >> I don't see any scrap of poem in the front matter of TPG. And my >> wife is pointing out that we're up way too late, so i'm not going >> to look in FHYA, etc. Or maybe in a later edition? > > TPG, Preface (not introduction, sorry), page xiv of the paperback "Yet you survived, for far away (8) Walking out upon the silent road (9) Where quiet Tiassa for you waits (9) With Yendi and gallant Lavode" (8) Yup, one syllable per chapter. -- Konrad Gaertner - - - - - - - - - - - email: gaertk at aol.com http://www.livejournal.com/users/kgbooklog/