[Dragaera] M-O-O-N spells Taltos (Minor Vallista spoiler)

Jeffrey Kiok jeffrey.kiok at gmail.com
Tue Oct 24 12:42:04 PDT 2017


I also assumed it was like a "press style" as Philip Hart said. Following
the plot where Vlad is dictating to the "metal box," he is making up
quotable lines and demanding appropriate attribution.

On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 3:24 PM, Philip Hart via Dragaera <
dragaera at lists.dragaera.info> wrote:

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>>> The chapter titles were amusing (the ones I recognized) and I got the
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> I thought this was 0) a reference to press style, where someone demands
> their scoop be acknowledged and 1) a joke about his name being pronounced
> or spelled in a counterintuitive way to non-Fenarians (a feature, now that
> I think about it, of "Brust" [if it's in fact "oo" as I have in my head]).
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