On 12/7/05, Bryan Newell <bryann at bryann.net> wrote: > Possible explanations: > > 1. Vlad is a very long-lived Easterner, and is narrating his tales to Brust > at the same time Paarfi is narrating Viscount to Brust, long after the > actual events occurred. Some of the narration in Dragon, IIRC, indicates that he is narrating the story at roughly the time where it occurs. Somewhere around the part where he's talking about "someone" messing with his memory, he says it's funny that he couldn't remember something that had happened only a few days earlier, and yet now three(?) years later he can still remember not remembering. > 3. Vlad's box is a recorder, not a transmitter, and years later, someone > else (Kiera, Savn, or (doubtful) Paarfi?) transmits his recordings to Brust I've always thought it was a recorder anyway, just because the translator would need a recording and not a single transmission anyway, and it always sounded like a tape recorder. My vote is that Devera acts as a courier. Max Wilson -- Be pretty if you are, Be witty if you can, But be cheerful if it kills you.