Wolfe's Swords
The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 22 Oct 1998
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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

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