From: Michael Straight <straight@email.unc.edu>
Subject: (urth) Wolfe's Swords
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 17:27:31 

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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