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{{quote|''"Grignr slipped his right hand to his thigh, concealing a small opaque object beneath the folds of the g-string wrapped about his waist. Brine wells swelled in Grignr's cold, jade squinting eyes, which grown accustomed to the gloom of the stygian pools of ebony engulfing him, were bedazzled and blinded by flickerering radiance cast forth by the second soldiers's resin torch."''}}
Described as "the worst fantasy novella ever", '''''
The story is well known for its abundant cliches, shoddy spelling, [[Flat Character|flat characters]], wooden dialogue and [[Purple Prose|overly colourful writing]]. Every woman is a "wench", eyes are "emerald orbs". [[Said Bookism|Nothing is ever "said"]] - instead it is "queried" or [[That Came Out Wrong|"ejaculated"]] or "husked" or "stated [[Perfectly Cromulent Word|whimsicoracally]]". There's an extended scene involving elderly priests groping Carthena, and a scene where Grignr has sex with (or possibly just hugs) a "half-naked harlot... with a lithe, opaque nose". One cult member [[Deus Ex Machina|randomly faints by an epileptic fit in battle]], and another suffers a savage, multi-paragraph [[Groin Attack]].
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The most widely-known and -circulated copy of the story comes to an abrupt and unsatisfactory halt, and for many years it was believed that the ending was lost forever (or even, in some quarters, that the story was never completed). Recent years have seen the separate discoveries of two intact copies of the fanzine in which ''The Eye of Argon'' debuted, so it is now known how the tale ends. (With multiple exclamation marks, it turns out.)
At science fiction conventions, ''The Eye
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As reading it raw may cause brain damage, you can settle for [https://web.archive.org/web/20130517120248/http://www.bmsc.washington.edu/people/merritt/books/Eye_of_Argon.html the MST'd version], or this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikM_Lh8Q0xo Dramatic Reading of Chapter One on You Tube]. For those whom are unable to read it sober, we have the [[Drinking Game]] over [[The Eye of Argon/Drinking Game|here]].
Compare ''[[Atlanta Nights]]'' and ''[[My Immortal]]''.
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