This week in Google Alerts: review of _The Knight_

Jeff Wilson · 09 Dec 2010, 06:33 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 00:33:55 -0600
Subject: (urth) This week in Google Alerts: review of _The Knight_
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On 12/9/2010 12:26 AM, Jerry Friedman wrote:
> *From:* Matthew Keeley <matthew.keeley.1 at gmail.com>
> **
>  > In the comments, the blogger talks about the Tower of Glas being one
> of the more "videogamey"
>  > aspects of TWK. This rather surprised me, as I think there's a lot
> going on in that particular
>  > passage. One of my very first posts here was about the Tower as a
> combination of a) the Tower of > Babel and b) Dante's Purgatory.
>  >
>>
> http://lists.urth.net/htdig.cgi/urth-urth.net/2006-September/006826.htmlatt
>
> No matter what else is going on, climbing an immense stair while being
> attacked by one flying monster after another strikes me as kind of
> "videogamey".

How about swordfighting an intemrinable series of sea serpents while 
swimming in full armor?

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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