On 6/28/06, Davdi Silverrock <davdisil at gmail.com> wrote: > > "I assure you, in the small fishing village I come from it forms the > sole topic of conversation." > I was sufficiently intrigued by the form of the above quote that I wondered if it was a quote or paraphrase of something else. The web itself yields no meaningful hits, but Google groups has the following two posts. http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.fandom/msg/9dd2b52aa38c110e?dmode=source http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.fandom/msg/e5432d84c812b3e8?dmode=source Given who the writer is, I believe we can conclude that there is a definite connection to the line in /Dragon/, but the dates of posting are after the publication of that book, so we cannot decide which way the influence went.