[Dragaera] Crack? Or not a crack?

[David Dyer-Bennet]

Davdi Silverrock wrote:
> In reviewing the noble Dr. Whom's archive of narrative inconsistencies
> (and noting some notable absences among them), I came upon this, which
> bothered me intensely enough that I thought I would throw the question
> to the list.
> 
> The alleged inconsistency appears to be based on a particular
> interpretation of an off-the-cuff statement by V. Taltos.
> 
>    http://www.speakeasy.org/~mamandel/Cracks-and-Shards/misc-cracks.html#burial
> 
> The submitter of the alleged crack appears to think that the
> statement, "He has buried (an Eastern term for "outlived"; I'm not
> sure why) a wife, a sister, a daughter" can only be interpreted as
> meaning that Vlad Taltos has no idea of the custom of burying the dead
> (raising the question, if this is indeed the case, of how Easterners
> do dispose of the dead in Adrilankha - cremation or exposure to jhereg
> being the only possibilities that come to mind).

The parenthetical makes that a pretty reasonable inference, to me.  I 
can't swallow Vlad just missing the allusion.
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