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Date: 2020-08-19 05:56 pm (UTC)Riderius
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Date: 2020-08-19 07:55 pm (UTC)Given that Smith encounters actual Gods or at least arch-Demons in at least four of his adventures, there's rather a lot of genre-bending even without his encounter with Jirel. (I won't count the one where he meets Medusa, since re-imaginings of classical monsters is a fairly common SF trope: Circe, OTOH, is a bit much)
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Date: 2020-08-20 10:53 am (UTC)Incidentally, Lynne Murphy in her book on American vs UK English, The Prodigal Tongue, talks about language prototypes and she uses sandwich as an example. To someone in the UK, the default meaning for sandwich is two slices of bread with a filling. A burger in a bun is not a sandwich, for instance. A submarine sandwich is usually called a baguette. She tells of the impossibility she had in getting a cafe in Brighton in England to give her a bacon sandwich on toast. A sandwich had to be two slices of untoasted bread and the idea of making a sandwich with slices of toast was beyond them.
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Date: 2020-08-23 12:33 am (UTC)