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Macey (shades of Gray) (Score:1)

by pjm (639) on 2006.08.16 19:49 (#49410)

I think he really does mean "mace" there: as in "something with spikey bits that causes damage". Mace/shield/la la la...

cf "dumped down", a deliberate near homonym. No real problems with English that I can detect, even if his prose has a very distinctive *grain*!

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