On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Davdi Silverrock wrote: > On 1/25/06, Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote: > > from http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/26/books/26masl.html > > > You bet we do. He is Capt. Diego Alatriste y Tenorio, the brooding, > > charismatic hero of Arturo Pérez-Reverte's wildly successful Spanish > > swashbuckling novels. He is profoundly cynical yet quietly principled, > > weary of battle yet ready to duel if he must. He is a man of few words but > > many melancholy gazes into the void. > > > He has an iguana, his familiar, on one shoulder. > > No doubt you threw in that last line to add excitement and local color > to the narrative. Even Paarfi nods.