[Dragaera] We must fill the Crack! (Jhegaala Spoiler Alert!)

[Frank Mayhar]

On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 10:26 -0700, Chris Olson wrote:
> This is a Jhegaala Spoiler Alert.
> 
> This is another one.
> 
> Here's a third.
> 
> Shall I continue for another Seventeen lines?
> 
> Or have you realized that, if you continue to read,
> 
> Yet you've not yet read Jhegaala,
> 
> Anything I write can and will spoil
> 
> Your enjoyment of the above-mentioned book.
> 
> And you really don't want to do that.
> 
> Do you?
> 
> I thought not.
> 
> This is the End of the Spoiler Alert
> 
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> 
> So, after reading Jhegaala, I've been re-reading Teckla, and I'm afraid 
> I've found a crack that we should really figure out how to fill.
> 
> Bottom half of page 138 of Teckla (Ace paperback edition) Vlad tells us 
> "I have pretty fair night vision, but there are those who see better 
> than I do."  However, in Jhegaala, it's made pretty clear that Vlad's 
> night vision is poor.
> 
> The easiest explanation I can come up with is that Vlad's pumping his 
> ego a bit with the comment in Teckla.  I mean, I could understand it, 
> given his state of mind in that story.  By the end of Phoenix and the 
> beginning of Jhegaala, he's already gone through some pretty major 
> changes to his personality, and is less likely to prevaricate something 
> of that nature (though he'll still lie when he feels the desire).
> 
> Any other thoughts?

He could simply have been wrong.  I didn't realize I had poor night
vision until I had it unmistakeably demonstrated to me one evening.  I
thought my night vision was fair until my then-wife and her daughter
both saw feathers fluttering on an owl that until that point I had
thought was one of those plastic mock-owls used to scare pigeons.  I was
35 or thereabouts.
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