Notes on the Fantasy Warhorse

You know that warhorse in Fantasyland -- especially Sword & Sorcery -- that will tear your arm off if you aren't its master?

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the magnetic attraction of old words

It can be annoying.  Plugging along working on a passage, and the words on it assert their precedence.  It can take several shies to persuade the prose to take on new form.

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