 KevinSchmitt
Participant
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I’m curious what Tony thought of the katana Well Drinker. Wasn’t the ghost writer of that novel sort of straying out of bounds by giving a sword a kind of supernatural power? You can’t say that Muramasa simply imagined that the sword had power because it could cut through a man like a chain saw.
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 Tony Roberts
Keymaster
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It wasn’t really a Casca novel – it was a Jinto Muramasa novel with Casca tagging along as a convenient by-stander.
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 Harri
Participant
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I figured it was a takeoff of the tale of Grasscutter
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 Tony Roberts
Keymaster
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If African Mercenary was a rip-off of The Wild Geese (which it clearly was) then I’m not surprised to hear another book was ‘influenced’ by another story.
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 Bertin
Member
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Did that sword really have power in the story, or did the fellow bearing it just believe it had power?
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 Tony Roberts
Keymaster
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For me I dunno, it would appear the blade was so well made that it appeared to have powers, but I don’t think it was intended to have.
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