[Dragaera] Pecans [Insignificant _Dzur_ spoiler]

[Kenneth Gorelick]

On Jan 10, 2007, at 7:57 PM, dovekie wrote:

>> On 10-Jan-07, at 7:37 PM, Philip Hart wrote:
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>>> Are we still officially spoiling _Dzur_?  Hmm, it's been 5 months,
>>> and there's no ppb edition, so I guess so.
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>>> I was eating pecans the other day and recalled that on pg 244 of
>>> _Dzur_,
>>> Vlad idly remarks that "Pecans don't grow near Adrilankha, they
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>>> be imported from, uh, from somewhere.  They're ridiculously  
>>> expensive.
>>> I think that's why I like them so much."
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>>> I had thought this just reflected the cost of transportation.  But
>>> those costs ought to be distance-independent, or nearly.  Perhaps  
>>> Vlad
>>> has been in the middle of nowhere for so long, hardly able to
>>> teleport,
>>> that he's forgotten how the future works.
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>> On 1/10/07, Alain Feeny <feeny at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> The location where pecans are grown is a closely guarded secret,
>> allowing a few individuals a monopoly on the market, hence the
>> ridiculous prices.
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> Pecan trees are one of the few life-forms on Dragaera that have a
> natural resistance to sorcery, thus rendering them difficult to grow
> and therefor expensive. The distance thing is just a coincidence.
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Silly! Vlad knows that they are grown on Greenaere, he just does not  
remember the name of the city!