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17605: Re: [MUD-Dev] Persistent Worlds

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From: Nathan F.Yospe <yospe@kanga.nu>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 00:29:46 -0000
Organization: Kanga.Nu
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, J C Lawrence wrote:

>> I'm not sure there's a lot of constancy in the definition of
>> dragons.  Chinese dragons are quite different from AD&D Tiamat
>> which are quite different from most Medieval dragons (religious and
>> heroic art, Arthur, etc) is different from Tolkein's dragons (LotR)
>> are different from LeGuin's (DragonFlight) are different from Andre
>> Norton's (Earthsea) are different from Pier's Anthony (Xanth) etc.

Just a... did you misattribute DragonFlight (McCaffrey) and EarthSea (Le 
Guin) in the original post, and if so, how did I miss it?  Norton hasn't
got much in the way of dragons... least not in her most popular works.

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Nathan F. Yospe  email: yospe@kanga.nu nyospe@a2i.com nyospe@pacbell.net
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