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Good to see 'juggling' used in its old form to connote cheating and trickery. And seconding HA on the coda--for my money it's the best single bit of the book. It also faintly echoes the ending of the St. Crispin's Day speech, now that I'm thinking about it:Henry IV posted:And gentlemen in England now a-bed https://web.archive.org/web/20081121015933/http://www.the-exiles.org/Article%20Brief%20His%20of%20Eng%20Wrestling.htm This is a useful resource on folk English wrestling styles. The town centre of Lancaster is 95 miles away from Derbyshire, where Derby is, and less northern than Wentbridge. So Pyle's rearrangements make it more likely the wrestling style used by Big Dave was of the brutal, any-hold-goes style. Second, the descriptions of how Big Dave is the best wrestler in the Midlands and currently holds the midcountry championship belt. Dave would be, in a modern WWE context, a rising star in the midcard, holding a belt like the Intercontinental or US title; maybe he'll win the World title in a few years, watch this kid. So it ties back to Robin being a good leader who knows how to spot, recruit, and nurture talent, and is also a great bit of world-building: we are indirectly given the scale and bounds of Robin and his gang's operations and influence: he's really just a problem/ legend for local law enforcement, and there's a whole wider Merry England out there beyond the scope of these stories. Exasperated Badger fucked around with this message at 05:52 on Aug 27, 2020 |
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