[Dragaera] _Iorich_ random brief comments (spoilers!)

[Jon%20Lincicum]

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From: "Eugene Zaretskiy" <eugene.zar at gmail.com> 
To: "Jerry Friedman" <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> 
Cc: dragaera at lists.dragaera.info 
Sent: Friday, February 5, 2010 10:28:47 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
Subject: Re: [Dragaera] _Iorich_ random brief comments (spoilers!) 

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Jerry Friedman 
<jerry_friedman at yahoo.com> wrote: 
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>> Some random brief comments: 
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>>> Pg. 15: Fill in the blank. I wonder if we're meant to be 
>>> able to guess what comment Vlad answers - something like, 
>>> "Easterners with jheregs are !$!#$@#$%s" I guess. 
>> ... 
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>> Or just "@*&^ your mother, you son of a whore" or "Eat 
>> #$(% and die." Or as one of Hemingway's heroes put it, 
>> "Unprint thyself". 
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>> What is the weird thing about swearing in this book. Are 
>> there profanity filters wherever he records his stories? 
>> Most of it is conspicuously bowdlerized, but Vlad uses 
>> "asshole" on p. 305, and I think there's another one 
>> near the end. 
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>I meant to bring this up in a thread, too, but didn't really have 
>anything to say about it. Iorich *did* seem unusually vulgar... I 
>don't have a problem with that, but I, too, wonder if there's 
>something we're supposed to learn or if it's just a change in style. 

This was a Zelazny trick, so that's probably where Steve got it. 

Am re-reading the Amber Chronicles right now, and the swearing in those books uses similar masking techniques. 

Majikjon