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Название книги: Tales From The Vulgar Unicorn
Автор(ы): Robert Asprin
Жанр: Фэнтези
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EDITOR'S NOTE
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
time.These are not inconsistencies!The reader should consider the contradictions again, bearing three things in
mind.First, each story is told from a different viewpoint, and different people see
and hear things differently. Even readily observable facts are influenced by
individual perceptions and opinions. Thus, a minstrel narrating a conversation
with a magician would give a different account than would a thief witnessing the
same exchange.Second, the citizens of Sanctuary are by necessity more than a little paranoid.
They tend to either omit or slightly alter information in conversation. This is
done more reflexively than out of premeditation, as it is essential for survival
in this community.Finally, Sanctuary i