{"id":703,"date":"2026-01-03T20:53:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/thieves-world-02-asprin-robert\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T20:53:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:53:42","slug":"thieves-world-02-asprin-robert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/thieves-world-02-asprin-robert\/","title":{"rendered":"Thieves World 02 – Asprin, Robert"},"content":{"rendered":"
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THE DREAM OF THE SORCERESS<\/b><\/p>\n

TO GUARD THE GUARDIANS<\/b><\/p>\n

ESSAY: THE LIGHTER SIDE OF SANCTUARY<\/b><\/p>\n

The perceptive reader may notice small inconsistencies in the characters<\/b> appearing in these stories. Their speech patterns, their accounts of certain<\/b> events, and their observations on the town’s pecking order vary from time<\/b> to<\/b><\/p>\n

These are not inconsistencies! <\/b><\/p>\n

The reader should consider the contradictions again, bearing three things<\/b> in<\/b><\/p>\n

First, each story is told from a different viewpoint, and different people see<\/b> and hear things differently. Even readily observable facts are influenced by<\/b> individual perceptions and opinions. Thus, a minstrel narrating a<\/b> conversation<\/b><\/p>\n

with a magician would give a different account than would a thief witnessing<\/b> the<\/b><\/p>\n

Second, the citizens of Sanctuary are by necessity more than a little paranoid. <\/b><\/p>\n

They tend to either omit or slightly alter information in conversation. This is<\/b> done more reflexively than out of premeditation, as it is essential for survival<\/b> in this community. <\/b><\/p>\n

Finally, Sanctuary is a fiercely competitive environment. One does not gain<\/b> employment by admitting to being ‘the second-best swordsman in town’. <\/b><\/p>\n

addition to exaggerating one’s own status, it is commonplace to downgrade<\/b> or<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Book Preview THE DREAM OF THE SORCERESS TO GUARD THE GUARDIANS ESSAY: THE LIGHTER SIDE OF SANCTUARY The perceptive reader may notice small inconsistencies in the characters appearing in these stories. Their speech patterns, their accounts of certain events, and their observations on the town’s pecking order vary from time to These are not inconsistencies! … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-robert-asprin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}