OFF: swords & sidearms

[Alex S. Garcia]

>>Thanks for clarifying this for me, Andy ! It makes a bit more sense now...
>>though - apart from his being another incarnation of the Eternal Champion -
>>I don't see what Jerry Cornelius has to do in Elric's story ! It's kinda
>>weird to see the word "gun" used in a sword & sorcery background...
>
>Oh, I dunno.  One of my favorite swords & sorcery novels was "The Guns of
>Avalon", by Roger Zelazny...

Oh, I'm a huge Zelazny fan myself (he's my favorite writer), and I love his
Amber series... I guess what I meant is that the world created by Moorcock
for the Elric stories was very much heroic-fantasy oriented and without any
scientific stuff in it, so that's why I find the gun reference kind of strange.

>That particular track almost seems to imply a double meaning, of drugs...
>
>Elric often used drugs to supplant his strength, primarily in attempts to get
>rid of (his addiction to) Stormbringer, as it were...  you can view it both
>ways,
>though I'd say the needle gun is definitely meant to refer to Stormbringer
>itself...

Yeah, that's what I figured when someone posted earlier that the needle gun
was Jerry Cornelius' equivalent of Stormbringer. Probably some kind of
symbol... *smile*



Alex S. Garcia.

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