In [i]The Runes of the Earth[/i] was wrote:She turned away for a moment to look out the window. It gave her an unilluminating view of the parking lot, where her worn old car crouched over its rust, waiting for the day when its welds would fail and it could finally slump into scrap. She had kept it only because it had carried her to her first encounters with Thomas Covenant.
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Hmmm...I think I'm gonna "cover my tail" by claiming I was being ironic. (Thanks for that "way out", wayfriend!)wayfriend wrote:I am not sure if you are forgetting that very scene in Runes. Or if you are being ... ironic.Cord Hurn wrote:
Even in real-world fiction like the Man Who mysteries, SRD has never stooped to such an obvious plot device as a good-working car suddenly not starting when it's needed.