Benito comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 19, chapter 88-89 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Benito 30 June 2013 09:35:34PM 10 points [-]

How romantic, in a very... Well, something.

I mean... "keeping your best female friend's dead body on a ring on your finger"...

Comment author: gwern 30 June 2013 09:50:51PM 3 points [-]

As it happens, I was reading the The Black Company dark fantasy series lat month; one of the powerful wizards in it, Shifter (he's a shapeshifter specialist) goes around with a staff carved into a beautiful woman - which was originally just that. He's a quasi-insane evil villain.

So... the fantasy precedents aren't that great, I guess I am saying.