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- From: rjwalsh@maths.tcd.ie (Robert Walsh)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.eddings
- Subject: Re: Size of the orb??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.104110.7833@maths.tcd.ie>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 10:41:10 GMT
- References: <96801@netnews.upenn.edu> <1992Nov9.212342.21733@news.cs.brandeis.edu>,<1992Nov12.175624.14436@nmsu.edu> <1992Nov16.173856.25579@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
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- I don't have the books here with me, but I seem to remember the
- picture on the front of Pawn of Prophecy was Garion, Belgarath and
- Polgara standing on a rocky ledge, with Garion holding the sword
- above his head. I'm sure the orb was visible on the sword then,
- and it didn't appear to be much bigger that a clenched fist (about
- heart sized, then?). Maybe this wasn't THE sword at all (after all,
- we know little about Garion's heritage in this book), but I can't
- check it out at the series is currently sitting about 100 miles
- away from where I am... Oh! College life!
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