[Dragaera] The Red Badge of Courage

[Jerry Friedman]

Not to nag, but I still see no mention of "She wouldn't
wreck her own reed" in /Athyra/, Chapter 7.

Ophelia: ...But, good my brother,
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;
Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And recks not his own rede.

/Hamlet/, I. 3.

Goes nicely with the true, true salad flax.

Or, for that matter, the reference to the High Reaches of
the Dragon Wing, and other connections to McCaffrey's
dragon books.

http://lists.dragaera.info/htdig.cgi/dragaera-dragaera.info/2008q1/003818.html

Cracks in the Orb!  I didn't mention an obvious reference to
Pern.  Two quotations from /The White Dragon/ (1978):

"'Great Shells and Shards!'  Robinton slapped his
forehead."  (p. 603, /The Dragonriders of Pern/ omnibus).

"'Shards, but I can't go another step for a while!'"
(p. 696, that's Piemur)

Jerry Friedman


--- Mark Mandel <cracksandshards at gmail.com> wrote:

> Posted.
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> m a m
> 
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Scott Crain
> <s_thomas_crain at yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > While I can't find the exact line in Stephen Crane's book, I did
> note
> > > while re-reading Dragon that it is very clearly referenced.
> > >
> > > Chapter 12, 'A Few Bumps and Bruises'
> > >
> > > ... and Virt, limping along next to me, said that the bandage around
> my
> > > forehead made me look like a real warrior.
> > >
> > > p.201, first mass market edition
> > >
> > >
> > > Especially exquisite is that Vlad received this wound when he was
> > > rushing at his opponent; she caught him perfectly, but it was with
> the flat
> > > of the blade.  Compare this to how the main character in Red Badge
> of
> > > Courage gets -his- head injury -- running headlong away from his
> first
> > > battle, he slams into a tree branch.
> > >
> > > Vlad also loses his cap (for which, I think, I'm pretty clearly
> > > imagining an American Civil War foraging cap...); the main character
> in Red
> > > Badge of Courage also loses his, if I recall correctly.
> > >
> > > Yet another item for the Cracks & Shards Allusions page.  :)
> > >
> > >
> > > S. Thomas Crain
> > > Author-in-Training
> > >
> > >
> >
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