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fable · 01-11-2002, 12:23 PM

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Originally posted by Melusine:
Heh... I thought this post would be about Marlowe and Vongoethe Can you say corny??
So it may very well be a reference...

I thought of that von Goethe reference as kind of a fun tip-of-the-hat to one of the great writers of the past, and enjoyed it. [img]smile.gif[/img] Bioware and Black Isle both tend to do that in their games, though there's a long history behind those professional nods. In one city in Betrayal at Krondor there's a tavern called The Green Cat, which was a deliberate bow to Fritz Leiber (author of the novel, The Green Cat, as well as the Fafhrd and Grey Mouser series), the great fantasy author who was also a distinguished psychologist. And books have done that sort of thing for years--Tolkien borrowed names from many medieval sources to show his indebtedness to the original authors' styles and goals.

01-11-2002, 12:23 PM	#5
fable Quintesson Join Date: March 17, 2001 Location: Where I am. Posts: 1,089	quote: Originally posted by Melusine: Heh... I thought this post would be about Marlowe and Vongoethe Can you say corny?? So it may very well be a reference... I thought of that von Goethe reference as kind of a fun tip-of-the-hat to one of the great writers of the past, and enjoyed it. [img]smile.gif[/img] Bioware and Black Isle both tend to do that in their games, though there's a long history behind those professional nods. In one city in Betrayal at Krondor there's a tavern called The Green Cat, which was a deliberate bow to Fritz Leiber (author of the novel, The Green Cat, as well as the Fafhrd and Grey Mouser series), the great fantasy author who was also a distinguished psychologist. And books have done that sort of thing for years--Tolkien borrowed names from many medieval sources to show his indebtedness to the original authors' styles and goals.