In a message dated Sun, 23 Jun 2002 5:14:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, Thomas Yan <tyan at twcny.rr.com> writes: > 1992 Tor mmpb Oh yeah, I forgot to mention in my post that I'm also using that edition. > cover art: {I scribbled "wing looks funny (gap?)". I > don't remember for sure what "gap?" means, but I note > today that the wings kind of blend in with some leaves, > which I may have earlier mistaken as part of the wings.} Actually, I think those *are* the long whatamacallit feathers of the wings, though it looks like he's trying to curl his wings into a pair of tubes. > ** ppxiii-xvi. [Paarfi's] Preface > > pxiv: "for far away" {typo: "far far away"?} I think that's not a typo. I can't find the right words to explain. > p5: kerosene lamps {fossil fuel reserve?} Missed that. So they did have petroleum refining before the Interregnum (or its an anachronism curtesy of Paarfi). > p8: [describe Aerich]; very tall for his House; vambraces I noticed on this reading that Pel was repeatedly described as short. > p17: the jump across the Lonely Ridge in the Kanefthali > Mountains {Orca?} Seems to be a pretty major mountain range. > 1st Phoenix after a complete Cycle = especially bad > {17+1 reasoning is interesting: why not expect #17 to > be the worst?} They probably did, just like folks who expected 1999 to end in disaster, then 2000 to do the same. --KG