Dragaera

Do Dragaerans dance?

Davdi Silverrock davdisil at gmail.com
Mon May 22 17:31:54 PDT 2006

On 5/22/06, Bryan Newell <bryann at bryann.net> wrote:
> > Do Dragaerans dance?
> >
> > Do we have textev for the forms that this might take?
>
> I am slowly being converted to Amazon's "search inside"...
>
>
> Lord of Castle Black, page 9 or 408 (Amazon returns the same quote for both,
> may copy has neither a page 9 or a page 408, but I remember the quote)
>         - "was very similar to the motions and gyrations of an Issola
> snake-dancer."
>
>
> Book of Jhereg, page 58
>         - "her walk was smooth, flowing, and delicate as a court dancer's."
>
>


Dragaera Booksearch is a little better of general word searches, and
the are about a dozen hits on "dance", and several for "dancing" and
"dancer".

Most of the descriptions are either metaphorical (eg, fire "dancing"),
although there is also Vlad's mention of the "jhereg dance" that
Loiosh does to make himself look bigger.  Heh.

Amazon search inside appears to confirm my memory that Aibynn danced
when he drummed before the Empress.  But Amazon is being cranky and
refusing to show me the entire page.

Another book search tool is http://books.google.com/
Although I see that they don't have the Ace books scanned, and they
aren't letting me view the full page either.  Or maybe it's something
to do with my browser.