- nonathlon
- Jul 9, 2004
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And yet, somehow, now it's my fault ...
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Having read it years ago (and enjoyed it), the memory of the book has reduced in my mind to the South Sea bubble and the weird slang. Particularly the word "qoz" (?) which came from nowhere, meant nothing, but was widespread and then disappeared. It reminds me of the current fervour for "wife guy", which has several mainstream media articles explaining.
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- nonathlon
- Jul 9, 2004
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I once read a writers guide that did a lot of reality-checks for fantasy cliches: what armor is really like, you can't ride a horse flat out all day, etc. One of the corrections was about poisons. At least before modern times, poison was very unreliable and of dubious efficacy. Many recipes for poison were dubious, they tasted vile and it was hard to see how the victim could choke down enough to actually kill them. The poison Mackay describes sounds a lot like fantasy poison, which puts the mania in a different light.
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