MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 2666

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) Re: Snippets
	by "Traci S" <tracibabe-+AT+-dragonslave.com>
  2) Re: Snippets
	by "Misty's Secretary" <mistysdesk-+AT+-hotmail.com>
  3) Takes a "snippet"
	by "Hill, Susan" <susan.hill-+AT+-weyerhaeuser.com>
  4) Re: Takes a "snippet"
	by "Li'nia Stormdancer" <lady_stormdancer-+AT+-yahoo.com>
  5) RE: Takes a "snippet"
	by "Cat Ray" <catray-+AT+-u.washington.edu>
  6) Re: Takes a "snippet"
	by "Misty's Secretary" <mistysdesk-+AT+-hotmail.com>

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Date: 9 Aug 2001 05:51:13 -0000
From: "Traci S" <tracibabe-+AT+-dragonslave.com>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk
Subject: Re: Snippets
Message-ID: <20010809055113.22128.qmail-+AT+-purina.chek.com>

On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 03:55:38 +0100 (BST) Roxanne Nolan <nolan-+AT+-gemsi.com> wrote:
<snip>
I have *always* liked Alberich
>and wanted to know more about him. (I'm still trying to find Werehunter so I
>can read about his choosing)
<snip>

I wasn't going to do this again but. If you're really interested in reading Werehunter, it's in the free library at http://www.baen.com/library/

I did enjoy that snippet, and hope there will be more shared with the list?
ts


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Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 06:36:57 +0100
From: "Misty's Secretary" <mistysdesk-+AT+-hotmail.com>
To: <mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Snippets
Message-ID: <OE503OJXsNQptgFrYIL0000842d-+AT+-hotmail.com>

*laugh* Now that's an example of "I'm the last to know anything around
here". I knew that born to run was there, but a quick look confirms it -
werehunter is as well.

*shakes head*

The Baen free library is an excellent project, and a fantastic way to get a
look at some books in electronic format that you might not otherwise have
looked at.

P

> I wasn't going to do this again but. If you're really interested in
reading Werehunter, it's in the free library at http://www.baen.com/library/
>
> I did enjoy that snippet, and hope there will be more shared with the
list?

Yes, there will indeed. I'm just holding off some, since I don't want to
overdo it. I'll send out chapter two of Shadow at some point in the future,
and I might just send out the other half of Thief ch. 1. I'm also grovelling
to Larry on your behalf for some kind of cut down examples of what he's
working on. I might see if he'll write a short paragraph or two describing
what he's got done recently, and what's in the pipeline.

He keeps saying that he could do a few demonstrations of work in progress -
let people see how it builds up, but he is awfully busy (He's got this
deadline for the cover of Shadow for example), and I'm not sure if he will
find the time. If he does, then you'll be the first to know.

Paul


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Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 10:24:25 -0700 
From: "Hill, Susan" <susan.hill-+AT+-weyerhaeuser.com>
To: "'mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk'" <mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk>
Subject: Takes a "snippet"
Message-ID: <872A9D7CC09CD11188CE00805FBB042E0A3643A4-+AT+-emswwc7.weyer.com>

Well, I read my bit from the Thief snippet and I had one major question...

In it, its mentioned Selenay's "free breakfast and school" program - and
while I think thats cool, are we going to hear more about this? I mean,
obviously Talia didn't get access to that, and WHY NOT? It sounds like more
than just companion's choice didn't get spread around the holderkin - it
sounds like they ignored the crown's prerogative. 

Or is this a program solely for the major cities?

just being curious.
-Susan


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Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 14:10:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Li'nia Stormdancer" <lady_stormdancer-+AT+-yahoo.com>
To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk
Subject: Re: Takes a "snippet"
Message-ID: <20010809211032.93583.qmail-+AT+-web13802.mail.yahoo.com>

Heyla List-Sibs!

--- "Hill, Susan" <susan.hill-+AT+-weyerhaeuser.com> wrote:
> In it, its mentioned Selenay's "free breakfast and
> school" program - and while I think thats cool, are
we going to hear more about this? I mean, obviously
Talia didn't get access to that, and WHY NOT? It
sounds like more than just companion's choice didn't
get spread around the holderkin - it sounds like they
ignored the crown's prerogative. 
> 
> Or is this a program solely for the major cities?

I tend to think that this was a program for more
populated areas, like the big cities.  Talia, for
instance, was considered a misfit for reading, as most
"proper" girls weren't taught how.  It wasn't
considered their place in life.  (AotQ, pg.5) And
since that was the prevelant view among the Holderkin,
Selenay's program wouldn't have even stood a chance of
starting there.  Smaller communities all around may
have been like that.  Bigger cities, while a bit more
open in their views, also tend to have more orphans
and poor people, people who don't consider schooling
as being more important than getting food.  Hence,
Selenay used the biggest attraction she could find:
the promise of a free meal.

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Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 14:15:09 -0700
From: "Cat Ray" <catray-+AT+-u.washington.edu>
To: <mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk>
Subject: RE: Takes a "snippet"
Message-ID: <KAEHLLKJDECEHGCFKHLPKEHMCAAA.catray-+AT+-u.washington.edu>

	The impression that I got from reading the snippet was that Selenay's "free
breakfast and school" program was only for Haven... in fact in the
paragraph, it says:
	"Every child in this neighborhood was running eagerly to their various
teachers for the same reason that Skif did; free and edible breakfast.  This
was an innovation of Queen Selenay's, who had decided, based on her own
observation, that a hungry child doesn't learn as well as one with food in
his belly.  So every child in Haven taking lessons who arrived on time was
supplied with a bacon-roll and a mug of tea in winter, or a buttered roll
and a piece of fruit in summer."
	It probably would have been a good idea if they'd expanded this program
throughout the country-- but it looks like it's just Haven that benefits
from this idea.

Cat

-----Original Message-----
From: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk
[mailto:mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk]On Behalf Of Hill, Susan
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 10:51 AM
To: catray-+AT+-u.washington.edu
Subject: Takes a "snippet"


Well, I read my bit from the Thief snippet and I had one major question...

In it, its mentioned Selenay's "free breakfast and school" program - and
while I think thats cool, are we going to hear more about this? I mean,
obviously Talia didn't get access to that, and WHY NOT? It sounds like more
than just companion's choice didn't get spread around the holderkin - it
sounds like they ignored the crown's prerogative.

Or is this a program solely for the major cities?

just being curious.
-Susan


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Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 18:54:14 +0100
From: "Misty's Secretary" <mistysdesk-+AT+-hotmail.com>
To: <mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Takes a "snippet"
Message-ID: <OE38g0Qg8QWJCkrVNqe00008936-+AT+-hotmail.com>

It's a matter of expense, and the possibility of fraud. In Haven, the
largest city, it's possible to hit the biggest percentage of poor that need
it, with the minimum of expense. Furthermore, in that small an area it's
possible to ensure that the food is actually being handed out, and nobody is
pocketing the treasury money.

Cities tend to attract the underclasses, so quite a sizeable number of
people would benefit from this deal. Moreover, it would be a hideously
expensive thing to try to push out as far as the holderkin lands - and has
been so well pointed out, it would be practically impossible to enforce on
those people anyway. Selenay is trying to do the best by her people without
unlimited resources.

Paul


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