(urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe

Jeff Wilson jwilson at io.com
Thu Jul 8 14:00:13 PDT 2010


> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 11:24 AM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:
> I too am entertained, but also a little perplexed. With Robert Jordan,
> who so far as I am aware has never thrown a knife in his life, the
> books are full of knife throwers. (In _Wheel of Time_, knife-throwing
> seems to be a standard skill, akin to swimming - it's more surprising
> when a character *can't* do it.) But with Wolfe, who is quite
> knowledgeable, knife-throwers are very rare. Offhand, I can't think of
> one!

The avern duel is pretty knife-throwy.




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