
Introduction and Chapter 1 - Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer
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The Power of Using the Vague Language
Shots implies it's not magic, right? Or somebody has access to way more technology than the pikes and iron gates. The old fortifications that are crumbling in place. We get another term in there, a battle air, which is sort of a curved dagger. So we go right back from that energy weapon to he hears a ring of steel on stone as if somebody had used a knife to strike one of the guards. He just hears the sound of metal clanging on metal. It's not specific. And that's the power of using the vague language.
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