Since there was an extensive discussion of swordplay on this list a
few months back, I think there will be interest in this book.
This week's issue of The Economist includes a review of 'By the Sword:
A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic
Champions" by RIchard Cohen. The opening sentence of the review is
Panache, the quality so dear to Edmund Rostand's swashbuckling
hero Cyrano, is displayed with almost equal flamboyance by Richard
Cohen, a former Olympic fencer, as he springs from branch to
branch of his prodigious subject.
It just got put onto my Christmas list.
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is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal." -- author unknown