# Wolfe's Swords *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 22 Oct 1998* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Michael Straight *22 Oct 1998, 17:27* > On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Mark Millman wrote: > The sword, of course, carries better symbolic freight > for Wolfe's purposes, even leaving aside the South > American (thus Spanish) cultural heritage of the > Commonwealth. Also, Wolfe just loves magic or otherwise nifty swords. Can we name them all? Terminus Est Silk's Azoth Silk's walking stick Latro's magic sword Weer's penknife (as Chesterton says, a penknife is more romantic than a sword, because it is a secret sword) Excalibur in Castleview Doesn't Wat have some kind of special sword in "A Devil in the Forest"? -Rostrum ---