[Dragaera] Iorich NO SPOILERS

[Eugene Zaretskiy]

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:41 AM,  <mtiller at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Hi Eugene,
>
> He doesn't say to Keira that Sethra would know, it's a comment to the reader.

Ah, thanks. Well, that changes the wording of my example, but I don't
see how that makes Vlad's comment make no sense to an uninformed
reader. They might scratch their heads because it seems like a strange
thing to think at the time, but Vlad's a strange guy. Every book in
the series, including _Jhereg_, is filled with references to people
and events that the reader may not know about, depending on which book
they started with.

New sample breakdown:

Vlad asks a question.
Kiera says she doesn't know.
Vlad says to himself: my friend Sethra would know.

I'm still not seeing how this makes Iorich worse of a first read than
anything else in the series.

>
> Regards
>
> Mark
> ---- Eugene Zaretskiy <eugene.zar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:25 AM,  <mtiller at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> I agree she has to stay in character, but my point is that the comment about
>> Sethra makes NO sense in context unless you are in the know.
>
> Really? I think it makes a *different* kind of sense.
>
> Vlad asks a question.
> Kiera says she doesn't know.
> Vlad says his friend Sethra would know.
>
> That seems to make sense to me from an uninformed perspective. If you
> know that Sethra == Kiera, then you ALSO know that Vlad means
> something quite different from what the text on the page says: He's
> (mistakenly) asking her to drop her guise and just answer the damn
> question.
>
> Maybe I am misremembering or misunderstanding.
>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>> ---- Kenneth Gorelick <pulmon at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Jan 15, 2010, at 8:02 AM, mtiller at ntlworld.com wrote:
>>
>>> I'm about half way through the book and the thing that has struck me
>>> is that I REALLY wouldn't recommend this book as a place to start in
>>> the series, there is so much happening that relies on knowing what's
>>> happened in the past.  Classic example Vlad talkiing to Keira and
>>> she says "I don't know" Next line says Sethra would know with out
>>> any explanation.
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>> But that us innate to the Sethra-Keira dichotomy. As Keira, she
>> requires herself to stay in character.
>>
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