Posted by gregg parmentier on April 21, 1997 at 13:42:46:
In Reply to: Re: Aquatic Pnume ?? posted by Peter R Booth on April 19, 1997 at 07:07:00:
: You raise a good point...in this series of books, there are a
: few inconsistencies...Reith sees a Pnume close up while in the
: "Shelters" and the narrative describes its features. Vance
: describes this as "except for a darkling glimpse in the
: dungeons of Pera" it was the first time he'd seen one...yet,
: as you say, one floats on the Draschade ...
One could easily define 'seeing something' to include
only times where there was enough visual information to give
some kind of vague description. But then, that would probably
be rationalizing. I'm sure Vance just spaced it off.