{"id":43,"date":"2001-09-30T18:28:39","date_gmt":"2001-09-30T22:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=43"},"modified":"2001-09-30T18:28:39","modified_gmt":"2001-09-30T22:28:39","slug":"de_lint_charles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2001\/09\/de_lint_charles\/","title":{"rendered":"De Lint, Charles: Ivory and the Horn, The"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I picked up a used copy of Charles de Lint’s The Ivory and the Horn<\/cite><\/strong> for a friend. This and an earlier collection, Dreams Underfoot<\/cite>, consist of urban fantasy stories set in the fictional city of Newford; I’d read them both several years earlier and then stopped reading Newford stuff, because they’d just gotten too preachy for me. (Admittedly, the stories in Dreams Underfoot<\/cite> had Messages too, but there were enough that were really good in spite of that to make it worth while.) I flipped through it today to see if my memory was correct; alas, it was. However, I was pleased to discover that I continue to like “Coyote Stories” because of its narrative voices.<\/p>\n

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This Coyote he’s not too smart sometimes. One day he gets into a fight with a biker, says he going to count coup like his plains brothers, knock that biker all over the street, only the biker’s got himself a big hickory-handled hunting knife and he cuts Coyote’s head right off. Puts a quick end to that fight, I’ll tell you. Coyote he spends the rest of the afternoon running around, trying to find someone to sew his head back on again.<\/p>\n

“That Coyote,” Jimmy Coldwater says, “he’s always losing his head over one thing or another.”<\/p>\n

I tell you we laughed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I picked up a used copy of Charles de Lint’s The Ivory and the Horn for a friend. This and an earlier collection, Dreams Underfoot, consist of urban fantasy stories set in the fictional city of Newford; I’d read them both several years earlier and then stopped reading Newford stuff, because they’d just gotten too … <\/p>\n

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