[Dragaera] [Dzur Spoiler][Orca Spoiler] A slip of the tongue...

[David Dyer-Bennet]

On 8/15/06, Shawn Burns <shawnb at stanford.edu> wrote:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info [mailto:dragaera-
> > bounces at dragaera.info] On Behalf Of David Dyer-Bennet
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 12:46 PM
> > To: Dragaera List
> > Subject: Re: [Dragaera] [Dzur Spoiler][Orca Spoiler] A slip of the
> > tongue...
> >
> > On 8/15/06, Howard Brazee <howard at brazee.net> wrote:
> > > Jon_Lincicum at stream.com wrote:
> > >
> > > >/Dzur/ Page 180:
> > > >
> > > >"...which is a problem Dragons tend to have. Strategy only remains
> > > >strategy, apart from tactics, in our heads."
> > > >
> > > >[/cite]
> > > >
> > > >So, why is Kiera the thief including herself when talking about
> > Dragons?
> > > >Isn't Kiera a Jhereg?
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > It's not obvious to me that "our" refers to "Dragons".   Maybe it refers
> > > to "us people".
> >
> > Can't reasonably be so interpreted.  The "Dragons tend to have" in the
> > previous sentence is key.  "Dragons" is the referent of "our".

> Steve seems to interpret it that way: "That was the universal "our"
> referring to human beings.  "When we consider these catagories of Being, we
> place them according to our notions of truth..." "

Steven will be shocked, shocked I tell you, to discover that I
sometimes disagree with him :-).
-- 
David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b at dd-b.net>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/>
RKBA: <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/>
Pics: <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/>
Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>