[Dragaera] comment on duelling

[Philip Hart]

A brief essay on duelling by Arthur Krystal -
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2007/03/12/070312crbo_books_krystal
- may be of interest to this list.  In particular the claim that
WWI and its attendant slaughter helped end duelling.  I wonder if there
was a general cultural shift after the Interregnum against the practice
(outside of sui generis Castle Black's floating endless party [is that a 
reference to a party in one of the later Hitchhiker books, incidentally?])
or if death's impermanence under the new Orb allowed it to continue 
(perhaps after a pause).  Or perhaps resurrection made the whole 
enterprise seem a bit silly.