maids of the contessa

Roy C. Lackey · 30 Jun 2008, 01:51 · from 2008-June.txt.gz

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From: rclackey at stic.net (Roy C. Lackey)
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:51:28 -0500
Subject: (urth) maids of the contessa
Message-ID: <001b01c8da53$d2c92f00$a7d04a0c at rclackey.stic.net>

Marc Aramini wrote:
>>Roy, certainly you have a good grasp on the literal text, but there are no
problems at all in mapping fictive life events from a play in a fictive
universe that is both highly stylized and divorced from realism.<<

That's absurd. Many of the things in Talos' play did not play out in the
Urth Cycle quite as depicted in the play. The play mixed elements of Canog's
book, "Genesis" and extra-biblical sources with Talos' imagination. Only in
gross aggregate does the play reflect the events recounted in the latter
part of URTH. The particulars of the play are more than a little suspect
when it comes to trying to use them to flesh-out the bare bones of a
character scattered about the text.

-Roy

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