Halfgrip

A couple of weeks ago we received a fantastic email from a fan that just had to be shared with everyone. Luis immediately recognized a similarity that he had with one of the characters from the Demon Cycle. You’ll be able to see the resemblance at the bottom of the post.

Dear Peter,

My hand is like Rojer’s! Normally I don’t disturb my favorite authors with e-mails but I thought the similarity was too much of a coincidence to let it pass and maybe you’d be interested. I’ve attached a couple of pictures of my right hand—missing its index and middle fingers—wondering if maybe that’s how you imagined Rojer’s hand (darn, I even have a scar on the same spot where Rojer’s fingers were devoured!)

I don’t play a fiddle, but I do sometimes have the same feeling that Rojer does: that some instruments (e.g. scissors) become an extension of my arm, which would otherwise be hindered if my hand was complete. The only difference is that I do not consider it a “crippled” hand.

If you are by now wondering, this lack of fingers was not due to some Coreling attack 😉 or to an accident of any sort; it was a birth condition called Oligodactyly. If you look closely on the picture with my face, I’m covering my mouth with my left, where I’m missing my middle finger. Those scars were product of a surgery from when I was a baby, supposedly to make the grip stronger, but or course, I don’t remember any of this.

Going on with the coincidences, I have a trip planned to Paris on the exact same dates of Les Imaginales, I didn’t know that it existed, but I might find some time to drop by and who knows, maybe I’ll even bump into a copy of “L’Or de Brayan”.

Yours sincerely,

Luis “Halfgrip” López

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Posted on April 27, 2011 at 12:42 pm by Hannah
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