[Dragaera] ryhme or reason?

[Philip Hart]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, inuyashadontask at aim.com wrote:

> The question is, Is there a reason to disorganized chronical pubilcation.

Writ large, SKZB tells the story that is of interest to Him and sets
it at the appropriate stage(s) of Vlad's life.  Vlad might also choose
to tell stories from his life out of order for various reasons which
we haven't much explored here.  Etc. etc.

Writ small, individual Texts occasionally concern several related 
threads, or can be more suspensefully told out of simple chronological 
order; presumably this shows Vlad's sophisticated sense of narrative 
(arising from Dragaeran and/or Eastern models), or reflects a whim on
the part of the Translator. Possibly related to the "sophisticated Vlad" 
interpretation is Vlad's apparent evolution into something approaching 
the divine, as we see in his multithreading in _Issola_; also possibly 
related is the gods' maybe nonlinear perception of time, or just 
Devera's.  The anachronism of Vlad telling stories in ways affected by 
his latter growth might be simply resolved by noting that nonlinearity 
in time could mean preechoes.

ExtraTextually I think SKZB has mentioned finding straight-forward 
narrative to be constraining or tiresome if unvaried.