No Sex, Please, We're British (was ethics in the WW )

o_caipora o_caipora at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 24 23:17:29 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 83515

Yet another bit of Larry Niven analysis comes to mind.

In his _What Good is a Glass Dagger?_ an evil magician is desribed to 
the chief good wizard, the Warlock. 

The bad guy, it seems, carries a sword. The Warlock bursts out 
laughing. His explanation is that since a wizard has so many more 
powerful protections, he only carries a sword if he's using it as a 
cure for impotence. IIRC the dialogue goes, "Does it work?" "Of 
course it works, it's straight one-to-one similarity magic. But you 
have to take the sword to bed with you!"

Thus Niven sheds new light on the personality of Godric Gryffindor. 

Jeff said:

> Rubber is too much of a muggle 
> invention for them to use, imho. But I could be wrong.

What do you think they use for birth control, then?






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