On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, M J wrote: > > From: Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> > >How can [Uttrik] miss an invisible, agile target? > > _EXACTLY_. - Oh, wait. I should've specified. He's fencing against an > _imaginary_ opponent - that is, _he_ can see it perfectly well in his > mind's eye, but onlookers are just thinking, "... now what in > tarnation?" > > And his imaginary opponent is, or so Tazendra thinks, taking him to the > cleaners. I think this would require rather too much thinking, or imagination, on T's part - to distinguish the opponent U sees in his mind's eye >from the opponent T sees as a mote there. But I've not dueled since college, and briefly then, and not saber.