[Dragaera] Pecans [Insignificant _Dzur_ spoiler]

[Alain Feeny]

The location where pecans are grown is a closely guarded secret,  
allowing a few individuals a monopoly on the market, hence the  
ridiculous prices.


On 10-Jan-07, at 7:37 PM, Philip Hart wrote:

> 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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