[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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