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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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