On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, Chris Davies wrote:

On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, ramon salvania wrote:

	Trying to be as cold as possible Nodoka says, "I heard what you
and Happosai talked about.  I guess you can start picking your new WIFE."

	Is this supposed to be Middle Earth or whatever Eddings calls the
world the Belgariad is set on ... the opening is pretty obviously a steal
from the similar situation in "Guardians of the West" ...

	If it *IS* Middle Earth, I'd strongly reccomend that you reread
any of the books to get a better feel for the much more elevated style of
dialogue that the nobility uses ...

	And the idea of Genma engaging in hanky-panky with Ukyou's mom
has already been done (this month, in fact).

Chris Davies.

This is no Belgariad.  The thing that inspired me to write something like
this was reading Lao's Middle Earth.  It is set just right before the
communist takeover.  Something of a tragic.

-Ramon