[Dragaera] [Minor spoiler] Deleted scenes

[Miguel Aja]

I don't remember much from 'The Drawing of the Dark' (read: I didn't like it
that much :) ) but the ones I can remember it was self-mutilation with a
express purpose, be it use blood magic, pain to keep focus, pain to defeat
psychic control, or 'just' self-mutilation to intimidate a child (!?). I
don't remember much protagonist butchering...

Maybe I have to re-read some of his stuff. Not that it would be unpleasant
:)


2010/2/1 John Dallman <jgd at cix.co.uk>

> In article
> <b605c0e31001190352n35a5c6c5w500e5d0a82883f1f at mail.gmail.com>,
> fistoftyr at gmail.com (Miguel Aja) wrote:
>
> > Can someone explain to me, in small words I can understand, how Tim
> > Power-esque is the Tim Powers bit in the deleted scenes? I have read
> > (I think) everything he wrote, and I don't remember it being specially
> > gory.
>
> Early Tim Powers novels had an obligatory messy hand injury scene: see
> especially _The Anubis Gates_, _Dinner at Deviant's Palace_, and
> _The Drawing of the Dark_. He's mostly grown out of it these days, but
> it's still the subject of the occasional joke, like this one. SZKB may
> even be sending up the kinds of injuries that Vlad picks up regularly:
> those have to be annoying for Vlad, but not put him right out of action,
> so hands are a reasonable option.
>
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