[Dragaera] The Red Badge of Courage

[Mark Mandel]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Jerry Friedman
<jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Not to nag, but I still see no mention of "She wouldn't
>  wreck her own reed" in /Athyra/, Chapter 7.
[...]
>  /Hamlet/, I. 3.
>
>  Goes nicely with the true, true salad flax.

Good! I've put that in now, though I won't be able to upload it tonight.

>  Or, for that matter, the reference to the High Reaches of
>  the Dragon Wing, and other connections to McCaffrey's
>  dragon books.
>
>  http://lists.dragaera.info/htdig.cgi/dragaera-dragaera.info/2008q1/003818.html

Will add this. OK to quote that post?

>  Cracks in the Orb!  I didn't mention an obvious reference to
>  Pern.  Two quotations from /The White Dragon/ (1978):
>
>  "'Great Shells and Shards!'  Robinton slapped his
>  forehead."  (p. 603, /The Dragonriders of Pern/ omnibus).
>
>  "'Shards, but I can't go another step for a while!'"
>  (p. 696, that's Piemur)

Uhhh.... No. That would be a reference FROM Pern TO Dragaera. That
would go into the "External references to Brust" at
http://cracksandshards.com/asstd-shards.html#external if we had
Timeriders; but _The White Dragon_ was published five years before
_Jhereg_. Nice try, and it looks connected, but the connection would
have to go the other way. Are there a lot of such lines in Pern, that
SKZB might have picked up his interjections from?

>  Jerry Friedman

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