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darkemeralds ([personal profile] darkemeralds) wrote 2014-01-20 08:39 pm (UTC)

Re: Up, Cardinal! Down, Queen!

Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle both qualify as cheap trashy reading, more or less, in their day. I love that about them.

I have a vivid memory of slow-motion swordplay in the Lester movie--the opening moments, as I recall, D'Artagnan practiced in a sunbeam-filled barn with something more like a broadsword than an epée. It was beautiful and startling and new at the time. I can see where it would inspire.

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