rone wrote: >What makes you say this? There's only proof that Vlad is talking to >the box. We also know that Steven Brust is translating Paarfi's books. > > Well, there's also the theory that Devera acts as a courier. But if we're playing along with the idea that Brust is only recording these stories as related by someone else, then he has to get the stories from SOMEWHERE. It's true that the "Silver Box" delivery method is the only means that has been explicitly noted in the books, it's a reasonably safe assumption to make that Brust "The Interviewer" might use this method to gather the Paarfi stories and BP via the same method. To the left, of course, seeing as how Brust "The Interviewer" must have traveled to Dragaera on at least on occasion (Vlad claims to have met the man who gave him the magic box) it's at least possible that Brust may have simply picked up a copy of Paarfi's works while he was there and simply translated them. (However, the interview with Paarfi at the end of FHYA indicates that Paarfi is aware that these books are being published outside of Dragaera in a different format.) Goodness knows where Brust "The Translator" got the money to pay Paarfi for the right to do this... Perhaps it's because he knows better than to play a seven duece off-suit? ;-) Majikjon