Re: Cementing Items O' Power

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_...>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:41:24 +0100 (BST)

> For those of you unfamiliar with dramatic theory, and narrative theory in
> general, "Chekov's gun" refers to Anton Chekov's rule (which I paraphrase
> here) that, if you introduce a gun in the first act of your play, one of
> the characters had damn well better use it by act three or four.

I always thought that was known as the "Sword on the Wall". And that Chekov's gun was a phaser...

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