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Wolfe's Swords
↰ answers Mark Millman
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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