Dragaera

Pel vs. Paarfi

Kenneth Gorelick pulmon at mac.com
Sun Nov 13 19:39:38 PST 2005

On Nov 13, 2005, at 10:03 PM, Davdi Silverrock wrote:

> On 11/8/05, Bryan Newell <bryann at bryann.net> wrote:
>> Be warned there be Spoilers ahead for the following books:
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>> The Phoenix Guards
>> The Paths of the Dead
>> The Lord of Castle Black
>> Sethra Lavode
>> Brokedown Palace
>> Jhereg
>> Taltos
>> Phoenix
>> Athyra
>> Orca
>> Issola
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>> 10. It has been suggested that Paarfi is a mouthpiece for Sethra.   
>> In one of
>> my emails to Steven Brust concerning the geography of Dragaera, he  
>> responded
>> to something I quoted from Paarfi by saying, "Pel is wrong.  Sort  
>> of."  The
>> passage we were discussing was clearly narrated by Paarfi (it was a
>> description of the location of Newmarket relative to Dragaera City  
>> early in
>> TPG), not directly attributable to Pel.  This seems to suggest  
>> that at least
>> portions of Paarfi's tale were supplied by Pel, not Sethra.  Or  
>> maybe Pel is
>> Sethra's mouthpiece, and Paarfi is Pel's.
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> To the left, it may have been a typo (of "Pel" for "Paarfi").  I'm
> just sayin', is all.
>
> I know I've made the same mistake, in the opposite direction.
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> Or...
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> Paarfi is secretly Pel!  That would explain *so much*!!!!

A Yendi (snake) passing as a Hawk? That would be a superhuman feat!
Ken


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