On 2/1/06, Ike Porter <ike at manor.org> wrote: > On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Scott Schultz wrote: > > > Actually, Steve isn't setting up that joke because he's already used it. I > > forget the exact circumstances now (probably when Vlad is going to meet > > Sethra for the first time in _Taltos_) but Vlad is asked "What if she turns > > you into a newt?" and he replies "I'll get better." > > Memory tells me it's an exchange between Vlad and either Kragar or Liosh > before heading over to Dzur mountain for the first time, but memory's lied > to me in the past... There *are* memory aids out there, including dragaera.info's Book search and Amazon.com's search inside. Thus we can discover, since the word "newt" only occurs twice in the books indexed by Book search, that the book was /Yendi/, and further, that the exchange occurred in chapter 16. Morrolan asks the question, and the previous occurrence of the word "newt" was a threat being made to Vlad in Morrolan's hearing (/She looked back at me and smiled sweetly. "How would you," she said, "like to be a newt?/, (Yendi ch1)). While dragaera.info book search does not disclose enough text to identify the speaker, Amazon.com's search inside allows you to view the entire page, and one can thus see that the speaker, as one would indeed suspect given that this occurs in /Yendi/, is none other than the Sorceress in Green. QED