[Dragaera] re Iorich???

Philip Hart philiph at slac.stanford.edu
Tue Aug 11 17:35:05 PDT 2009


On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Jeffrey Kiok wrote:

> What i like about the progression of the "Vladiad" (I saw someone call it 
> that, but I can't call it that with a straight face, sorry)

Sorry.

> [...]
> I guess what I'm saying to say is that when you meet a human being, you don't 
> necessary learn about them chronological order.  The concept of the 
> temporally linear "biography" is a very peculiar and artificial concept. 
> [...]
> And I feel that the manner in which Vlad's story unfolds more aptly mirrors 
> the human experience of knowing about person.

Interesting insight.  Note also that some of the Texts start in medias 
res - hmm, actually that's not really precise - anyway there are 
achronological Ones, so the same effect occurs locally.



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