FRIEDA2133 at aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 8/18/2005 5:24:43 AM Eastern Standard Time, >almagaiz at gmail.com writes: > > > >>I think he means the recorded conversations with Vlad. >> >> > >Ah ha, *not* transcripts, the recorded conversations between Vlad and a >"shiny contraption with presumed ears at both ends" . (Dragon, paperback, Chapter >1, "Memory is like a Watchacallit", pgs 15-16.) Heh, we never got to see that >picture of Steve with a shiny >contraption. The conversations would have to be translated into English, >typed up, the missing parts would have to be made up and the whole would have >to be written into book form. > >It would sort of work out the same way if you have Vlad's voice in your head. > Translate and type up the ideas in your head, make up the missing parts to >make it seem like you knew what you were doing from the beginning. You do not >have to translate from another language but then you have to come up with all >the ideas yourself. Much harder. > > > Not everything Steve has reported on was dictated by the wise-cracking young assassin. Some of it was created by a wordy old scholar. Translating is not an easy task when you want to make sure you keep the styles of the originators. I suspect Steve originated _/Brokedown Palace/_ himself though. The other stuff obviously all originated in Dragaera.