The idea of Doc wielding the revolver in one hand and the shotgun in the other doesn't work either.
Not in the real world, anyway. But Anime!Doc or ActionHero!Doc could dual-wield TWO shotguns. With his FEET. :-)
Apropos of your column the other day, and our discussion on it -- if you have not already read it, go to a bookstore, find the annotated edition of From Hell, and read the short comic "Dance of the Gull Catchers" at the back. The things it has to say about historical writing, and historical fiction, and the vortex that forms around loci like the Ripper (or Tombstone), are really interesting. (The best touch is when he likens this kind of study to a Koch Snowflake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Snowflake); its edge becomes fractally infinite, as more information gets added, but will never escape the circumscribed limits of the event itself.)
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Date: 2010-04-12 08:18 am (UTC)Not in the real world, anyway. But Anime!Doc or ActionHero!Doc could dual-wield TWO shotguns. With his FEET. :-)
Apropos of your column the other day, and our discussion on it -- if you have not already read it, go to a bookstore, find the annotated edition of From Hell, and read the short comic "Dance of the Gull Catchers" at the back. The things it has to say about historical writing, and historical fiction, and the vortex that forms around loci like the Ripper (or Tombstone), are really interesting. (The best touch is when he likens this kind of study to a Koch Snowflake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Snowflake); its edge becomes fractally infinite, as more information gets added, but will never escape the circumscribed limits of the event itself.)