From: "Trazodone, Brother of Dimetridon" <walter at nova.org>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 21:35:14 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] Re: What color Dragon are you?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Hello Ase

{rich brown reminded me some years ago that the speed of
delivery of a message has nothing to do with the speed of
composing a reply.  Alas.}

On 06-Mar-02, Ase wrote:
AE> Michael Walsh wrote:

MW>> . . . and those folks who pick up the US edition of Swanwick's "The Iron =
MW>> Dragon's Daughter" expecting a nice comfort book based upon the cover are =
MW>> in for quite a rude shock.

AE> Heh. I can just imagine. I read that a couple of years ago- I think I
AE> missed some of the subtext, because the end of the book took me
AE> completely by surprise. ("Wait a minute! How'd we get from *there* to
AE> *here*?") ...

At first I didn't like the ending at all, for all that it fit
neatly into the "tradition" of fantasies being enclosed in
dreams (in this case a coma).  I wonder, if I reread it, would
it begin to make more sense as the working out of trauma by
the mind of the victim?  Would the whole book be a working out
of growing to maturity, while at the same time condensing, and
reviewing, the social conditions of the last 150 years?

AE> It's been too long since I read anything by Swanwick. Well, spring break
AE> is next week, I'll have to add him to the "to read" list...

---good

MW>> & speaking of Lucius & dragons, he has written my favorite closing line:

MW>> " . . . from that day forward she lived happily ever after. Except for the
MW>> = dying at the end. And the heartbreak in between."

AE> I like it. Book and author, please?

Lucius Shepard "The Scale-Hunter's Beautiful Daughter."

I am put in mind of a story.  Uh, oh...

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Um, Ase, I hope this isn't too personal a question, but are
you by any chance Peer Gynt's mother?

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Trazodone, Brother of Dimetridon,
The Don Cossack of Don Pablo's