--- 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.] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com