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                                                 Aug 19, 2004

  The toadkeeper had
  a rule of thumb about         TOADKEEPER
  "realism" in adventure
  fiction: he preferred
  stories where the heroes
  were willing to kill.

  That means that they're
  "serious" about it.          There's a bit in the
                               first Indiana Jones movie
                               that he liked, where Jones
     By this standard,         has a bullet wound in his
     "The Saint" novels        arm, and the bad guy
     are Serious Fiction.      repeatedly punches him
                               in the wound.

                                  That was another
                                  example of Being
                                  Serious.


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