[Dragaera] Dragaera Digest, Vol 27, Issue 4

[Steve Rapaport]

What good is a glass dagger?   Raven from Snow Crash gets to be a seriously
bad mofo with just those, even before you find out about his portable
nuke....

StY

2008/9/18 Ken Koester <kkoester at email.ers.usda.gov>

> J C wrote:
>
>  For some reason I read that and immediately, "What good is a glass >
>>> dagger?" popped into my mind. . . .
>>>
>>>
>> I read that and saw "glass slippers --> ruby slippers" and then my mind
>> supplied me with an image of Vlad putting a dagger between the
>> shoulderblades of the Wizard of Oz....
>> It's probably a significant psychoemotional response about slaying my
>> father because I secretly want to bed my mother or something.  I should
>> stick a dagger between Freud's shoulderblades...
>>
>>  Freud's a fraud.  According to Martin Gardner, he based psychobabble on
> just 6 data points & had a weird fixation on nose size & shape to boot.
>  Shades of phrenology!
>
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\Steve