[Dragaera] Onions (homage to Brust?)

[Philip Hart]

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 Gaertk at aol.com wrote:

> I can't tell if this is an homage, or just another author who thinks
> onions make a good simile.  Anyway, here are the first two paragraphs
> of Lemony Snicket's _The End_:
>
>      [...] if you insist on reading each and every thin, papery
>      layer in A Series of Unfortunate Events, your only reward will
>      be 170 chapters of misery in your library and countless tears in
>      your eyes.


170 ch = 17 ch * 10.  Uhh, _Jhereg_, _Yendi_, _Taltos_, _Teckla_,
_Phoenix_, _Athyra_, _Orca_, _Dragon_, _Issola_, _Dzur_.  So that
much matches...