see below >From: Howard Brazee <howard at brazee.net> >To: "'Dragaera (E-mail)'" <dragaera at dragaera.info> >Subject: Re: Yuck >Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 11:31:11 -0600 > >snip> > > >If it quacks like a duck, swims like a duck, and flies like a duck - why >say it's a cat? > >So what does "dead" mean? yes :) I think, however that if we re-read Issola, that we may find "those . . . whose usefulness has not expired with their death, and are sent out into the world once more as un-dead: I (Sethra Lavode) became one of these some time ago." (not exact quote, AFB at the moment.) I think this clearly implies that undead are not re-incarnated (a la Dolivar/Vlad or Kieron's Shaman Brother/Aliera), but are also not "living"- the Necromancer is referred to as undead, but I can't recall she is termed a vampire- except perhaps by implication. Again in Issola "The two undead women faced each other . . . although Sethra was a vampire, the Necromancer looked more like one- wasted, pale, some hideous disease." (again not an exact quote) So undead= not "living", useful to gods, doesn't eat much (Sethra), may be a vampire (Sethra). James Griffin Still Another Vlad faN