On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 Gaertk at aol.com wrote: > Steve Brust <skzb at dreamcafe.com> writes: > > > 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) Note that this of course loosely parallels the "historical" préface of les Trois Mousquetaires. And note that Dumas's first success was an historical drama about Henry the Third.