Steely Edge
Today is a good day to spend a few minutes listening to the most astonishing musical instrument ever created by Man or God. Alex Ross meditates on the death and life of Pavarotti, with sound clips everyone should hear.
Meanwhile....
I am in love (in love!) with TV Tropes (by way of Futurismic). I expect many happy future hours will be spent there. For example, check out Clean Cut:
[M]ost bladed weapons in fiction are impossibly finely-edged things, capable of slicing straight through a victim and leaving such a thin cut as to be almost unnoticable. Passing straight through a spine or rib cage? No problem! Decapitating an individual with a single blow, or even cutting them apart in multiple angles? Can do!
Bonus points if it doesn't manifest until the attacker has sheathed their sword, and extra bonus points if the wound does not manifest until the victim (for example) reaches up to feel his neck, at which point his head falls off....
In the teaser for Cube, a character is in one room when something happens. The character freezes in shock, and seconds later falls apart in neatly diced cubes. The something turns out to be a moving grid made of razor wire.
Variant: Practically all the dismemberment in the movie 300 is like this. No matter how strong you are, cutting a man's limbs or head off is a remarkably difficult task, but Leonidas in particular is a walking Cuisinart despite the small, none-too-fine sword he uses.
Umie the Umlaut says, "ask your doctor about the Fredösphere!"
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