On 2/9/06, Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote: > I like those quips more than some of the others from _Issola_ > cited earlier, e.g. the hissy-cow. Esp. in isolation I get a cutesy, > what-the-reader-wants not what-the-reader-needs feel from them. > Vlad sometimes feels too, hmm, infantilized? in _I_. Maybe, in his own crabby way, he's just enjoying seeing his old friends again? Issola is by far my favorite /Vlad/ book, perhaps because of all the dialogue. Max -- Be pretty if you are, Be witty if you can, But be cheerful if it kills you.