At 03:01 AM 6/28/2006, tom sausman wrote: >First let me state that the following statements will contain >misspelled words, poor grammar, and vague sources, mostly due to the >fact that I am dislactate and too lazy too go through all the books >I have of "Brust" (I have does big three-in-one books). Thank you >and apologizes in advance. > >Second: How are you gentlemen and I hope women able to "decode" the >works of "Brust"/ "Paarfi", mainly the Vlad Taltos seris? For one >instance the Seorli( I believe ) in "Dragon" which Morralon took >after about Spellbreaker/Godslayer/Lady Tledra. Another how did >Mario get out of "the paths of the dead" b/c Aleria was trap there >as was the "orb" and Sethra became a vapmire. Also while Dereva was >(presumely) that dragon during the fight with Jenione, was she the >same one who was (I blieve) either upset or "it" reconzie Vlad when >him and Dark Star went to reunited Aleria to the land of the living. You just have to take a lot of what you read on faith. Once in a while, there is some deliberate misdirection, of course. I think that the stories narrated by Vlad are accurate to the extent Vlad knows what he is speaking of at the time he narrates the story. Vlad may be inaccurate in some of his statements, however, probably just because he doesn't really know, accurately, what is true. Paarfi is writing romance novels, not a history, just as Alexandre Dumas pere wrote _Les Trois Mousquetaires_ based on historical fact, with a lot of stuff added. Many of the characters really existed (D'Artagnan, Richelieu, Anne of Austria, Buckingham, etc.), but much of the story was invented. We can't really tell how much of the Paarfi romances is true and how much was invented, although there is this difference: Most of the people in the Paarfi romances are still alive at the time of Paarfi's writing, and all of Dumas's characters had been dead and gone for at least a century and a half. >Third: Do not miss understand I love Brust and the writings of >Paarfi but to one such as my self they are too ambugious, and >sometimes cliff-hangers. Such as the window(s) in Dark Star's tower, >how did Verra get it there was it already a um what did the Demon >and so-and-so ( sorry I forgot) a place where gods meterializes and >the special portals ( the cave where Zekia/ Ziva inmuge from the >"Halls of Judgement" I think that those things aren't meant to be explained, just taken at face value. These novels are fantastic fiction, not mainstream historicals. When you have gods and beings like the Jenoine, to say nothing of all sorts of fantastic creatures like cat-centaurs, Jhereg, dragons, etc., to say nothing of things like Castle Black, you certainly can't demand complete reality! -- Regards, Pete pgranzeau at cox.net