[Dragaera] A passing comment of Sethra's

[Philip Hart]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, John Dallman wrote:

> In article
> <Pine.SOC.4.64.0707081645250.19822 at flora03.slac.stanford.edu>,
> philiph at slac.stanford.edu (Philip Hart) wrote:
>
>> I'm a bit confused about this, since if _FHYA_ is post-Vlad then
>> Paarfi well knows that Aliera has been restored, and if he doesn't
>> know that then the book is pre-Vlad.
>
> We know that Paarfi has published something - although not what - during
> Vlad's life at a time that Aleria was around, because he mentions Cawti
> reading something by Paarfi in, I think, Teckla.


Well, yes.  I in fact sometimes ascribe the occasional apparent internal
conflicts in Paarfi to just this fact - we might well have Texts which
are reconstructed from incomplete but overlapping sources, including some
from Vlad's time.  For example the comment about Sethra's disappearance
might date from a pre-Vlad manuscript.