[Dragaera] Glass Dagger Toss, Anyone?

[Ken Koester]

Yes, and eye surgeons used to use obsidian knives.  And Faye Dunnaway as 
Milady had a rather nasty acid-filled pair in =The Three/Four 
Musketeers=.  But these, obviously, are not the reference. . . .

Snarkhunter

Steve Rapaport wrote:

> 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 
> <mailto: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!
>
>     Snarkhunter
>
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