[Dragaera] Morrolan's claims to witness Zerika's descent

[Jerry Friedman]

--- Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Jon Lincicum wrote:
> 
> > Philip Hart wrote:
> > >
> > > All this is at the foundation of the naive Sethra-as-Paarfi theory,
> an
> > > alternative being the cynical Sethra-as-Paarfi theory which has the
> main
> > > actors being happy to have false information about them
> disseminated.

Not to mention the extremely naive Paarfi-as-Paarfi-and-Sethra-
as-one-of-his-sources theory, to which I have the honor to
subscribe.  This is a branch of the SKZB-was-just-having-cool-
stuff-happen-and-not-building-a-hidden-story theory.

> > Or, if not happy, at least not angry enough to cause a ruckus about
> it....
> 
> E.g., not the "My honor, even if the world burns" Aliera and Morrolan
> we think we know from the Vladiad.

Morrolan, at least, thinks it's dishonorable to defend himself
against false beliefs, or at least Teldra says he prefers
not to do so.  I have no feeling in general for what Dragons
consider to be honorable and dishonorable, except that the
results seem to lead to Cool Stuff.

There are analogies in our world--/The Seven Pillars of
Wisdom/ (there seems to be some disagreement on how factual
that is) and other things about T. E. Lawrence, /The Electric
Kool-Aid Acid Test/ and /The Right Stuff/, a TV movie
called /Pirates of Silicon Valley/, Oliver Stone's /JFK/,
and probably many others.  (There are also thinly disguised
autobiographical books, such as Kipling's /Stalky & Co./,
which Brust fans should read if they haven't, come to 
think of it.)  I think the "characters" in these books
usually treat them as beneath their notice or worth no
more than a wry dismissal.

Jerry Friedman


 
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