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How easily they forget, these Heroes, but in their theft of
the poetry to ornament their edited and self-serving story
(the water is rising even higher in the chamber: my
brother's old water wings, scarcely damaged by the fall,
should hold me up until I have finished writing), in their
theft of the poetry they have stolen the clues to their own
discovery, their own embarrassment, as a famous fragment
shows, as I shall show in other publications - given time,
given an audience,21 given a purchase of dry ground in this
rapidly drowning tunnel. As for now, my readers: here is
the "Song of the Ten Heroes" with accompanying notes -
the first true chronicle of the Dragonlance.
20. Oh, they have claimed several reasons for these slights.
Claimed that Armavir was overly fond of wine (which is
Caramon Majere on his high horse [or on the wagon] I am
certain!) and overly fond of young girls, who kept getting
younger and younger, larger and larger, as the War
continued (this clearly an accusation made by Tanis, who
made an incredible fuss over some harmless keyhole
observations [see commentary on lines 46-50, "Song of the
Ten Heroes," in Section III of this essay. I wish that only
once, someone would ask him who ghosted his "Dear
Kitiara" letter, but he's elf enough - just barely - to get by
without questioning])
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