the outfit
The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 19 Apr 2000
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DAnger4444 — 19 Apr 2000, 12:21

> Another question: what is the historical basis (if any) for our
> conception of how a torturer looks?  In other words, from whence comes
> the image of the bare-chested masked torturer?
> Lex Shellac

Wolfe himself remarked that the whole book came out of the idea to dress 
as a character in a fantasy novel for one of those big sci-fi 
conventions. The outfit intrigued him ( I don't know where he got the 
image, though), and the novel grew out of that. Sounds a bit coy, but in 
art, so much can come out of so little. Wolfe was obviously having 
thoughts in this direction anyway...
DA

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