Dragaera

Paarfl?

Mark A. Mandel thnidu at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 25 17:56:05 PDT 2006

--- tom sausman <inuyashadontask at netscape.net> wrote:

> Who is Parrfi? I thought it was an alais for Brust during his 5 volume 
> triology. Sorry for the spelling.

Paarfi is the "author" of the romances about Khaavren and his friends and
his son, which are written in a quite different style from Brust's usual
style(s), and are a pastiche of Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers and
its sequels. See
 - http://cracksandshards.com/jokes.html#Dumas : Dumas, Alexandre, père
 - http://cracksandshards.com/Paarfi_Dumas.html : Paarfi and Dumas
 - the two "About the Author" afterwords to The Phoenix Guards
 - the "About the Author" afterword to Five Hundred Years After 
    [In Which Brust Interviews Paarfi and Advertises His Own Music, 
     Paarfi Interviews Brust, 
     And They Reach Agreement On at Least One Point, 
     To Wit, Their Intense Mutual Dislike 
     -- MAM, http://cracksandshards.com/contentsKF.html#FHYA ]

(And all right, I won't ask about InuYasha, because I don't need to.)

(And never mind that wisecrack about kosher food ["neither milk nor
meat"]. "Paarfi", however misspelled, is not the same as "parve", however
transliterated.)

-- Mark A. Mandel
   http://cracksandshards.com
   a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website
   [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]



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