Public Speaking
More Comedy With Adzel
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"The idea of someone equipped like Adzel calling himself a humble fool took the Merseians so far aback that they forgot to stay angry."
-Poul Anderson, "Day of Burning" IN Anderson, David Falkayn: Star Trader (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 209-272 AT p. 244.
The quadrupedal, brontosaur-like Adzel is bigger and more fearsome looking than the warlike but bipedal Merseians. However, his humility and self-deprecation startle those beings so much that they have an unintended side-effect: two Hands and a Warmaster forget that they are supposed to be angry!
Adzel's alarming appearance also generates humor in "How To Be Ethnic In One Easy Lesson." See here.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Yes, it was funny how someone as FORMIDABLE looking as Adzel make three bellicose Merseians forget to stay angry. And another Wodenite's equally alarming appearance gives us a similar moment of humor in a tavern in Chapter 1 of THE GAME OF EMPIRE.
Sean
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