Discussion History Literature / DragonridersOfPern

This is one of those cases where [=McCaffery=] seems to have trouble staying consistent. In \\\"Dragonflight,\\\" Lessa\\\'s discovery of \\\"timing it\\\" was a big shock to F\\\'Lar, and other dragonriders, even though a few books later timing is mentioned in the Ballad of Moreta\\\'s Ride, which is one of the traditional teaching Ballads, so presumably not only F\\\'Lar but all of Pern knows it. IIRC, in the Moreta book, there\\\'s a part where she warns a young rider against the dangers of timing it, and the impression is given that the ability was pretty well known in her time. Presumably there were a lot of instances of accidental timing.