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Subject: Re: Dragonsong/Dragonsinger confusion
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 15:56:40 -0600
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She wrote the F'nor - Canth song "Don't leave me alone!" in just a few
hours. I think she would have had ample time to write the final fire
lizard song the evening-night before she left for the last time,
leaving it for Elgion to find later.
Dee
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 19:14:53 -0700, "SilverGriffin"
<golddragoness@hotmail.com> wrote:
>I just went through that particular portion of "Dragonsong" just after she
>rescues the queen's clutch up until she takes off from Half Circle...for
>good. It's not said specifically when she wrote that tune, but it is implied
>that she wrote most of it the night after rescuing the clutch. Near the very
>beginning of chapter 5, it states that she sought her cubicle and bed as
>quickly as possible so she could "absorb" the events of the day. Given the
>way Menolly is, she would have had time to write most of the song and hide
>it in her usual space in the harper's files.
>
>Just thinking...
>
>SilverGriffin
>
>>>> Maybe this has been addressed before, but exactly when does
>>>> Menolly compose the "Fire Lizard Song"? I realize there were two-
>>>> one she wrote after the first time she saw the fire lizards
>>>> (mating flight), and she put that one in the (empty) harper's
>>>> room. However after she got to the Harper Hall, it seemed as if
>>>> everyone knew the story of the "holder man" who saved the queen's
>>>> clutches. Yet there wasn't time to for her to write it, let alone
>>>> for it to have been disseminated.
>>>>
>>>> Another one of those "inconsistencies"?
>>>
>>> IIRC, Petiron's replacement found the song, assumed it was written by
>>> Petiron or one of his apprentices and sent it to the Harper Hall.
>>> --
>> Except that there wasn't time for her to write the "rescue" song before
>> she left the hold to live with the fire lizards. I think it was just a
>> matter of a couple days- at the most.
>>
>> MaryD
>>
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