[Dragaera] The Desecrator [spoilers]

[Kenneth Gorelick]

Or it was Doc Savage in a wig. 

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On Mar 7, 2011, at 4:37 PM, Davdi Silverrock <davdisil at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Davdi Silverrock wrote:
>> A few thoughts, here and there.
>> 
>> Spoilers ahoy.
>> 
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>> 
>> Shout-outs, references, in-jokes:
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>> There seemed something familiar about the illusionary man "wielding"
>> Nightslayer.  Elric of Melnibone would have been somewhat appropriate,
>> but the description fails utterly to match.  Blue eyes and and brown
>> hair could be anyone, really, but the golden skin seems like a detail
>> meant to reference something.  I don't know what, though.
>> 
> 
> Of course, the most likely reference is a Zelazny one. And it did
> occur to me that the most appropriately bloodthirsty of Corwin's
> brothers is probably Julian -- and I see, checking the obvious place,
> that Julian is portrayed as having "dark hair hanging long, blue eyes
> containing neither passion nor compassion."
> 
> That still leaves "His skin was a shade of gold I’d never seen
> before", though.  But then it occurred to me -- could "a shade of
> gold" in fact mean ...  *amber*?
> 
> If that was the intent, then I do believe SKZB deserves *such* a smack.
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