On 12/21/05, Jon Lincicum <lincicum at comcast.net> wrote: > Peter H. Granzeau wrote: > > > You know, Kragar, as I remember, done TOLE Vlad why he was a Jhereg, > > not a Dragon, and it didn't involve a single instance of the word > > "perhaps". > > > ...which conveniently ignores the fact that Vlad on several occasions > later begins to suspect that Kragar might be lying (or at least not > giving him the whole story), and that Vlad says as much to the reader. > > Who's more reliable? Or perhaps a better way to put it would be, "Who's > more un-reliable?" More to the point, *every* *single* major character that SKZB has portrayed in the Dragaera stories has been shown to be unreliable for one reason or another - outright and blatant lying; poor memory; lack of comprehension of some complicated situation; having a personal interest that they don't wish to disclose (or other hidden motivation); not being in the mood to discuss something in full detail; assuming a fact from erroneous observations; assuming that someone already knows the facts; generalizing from one example; or just making a mistake of major or minor proportions. And various combinations of those reasons, and probably other reasons as well, which I left off because I couldn't think of them right now. Thus, there's always room for speculation. Therefore, some of us speculate.