Here is a description of a duel that was conducted according to all the rules of dandyism between the English dandy Pelham and a French fop, both of whom were experienced
duelists: "The Frenchman and his second were already waiting for us [here it is a deliberate insult; the norms of refined politeness dictate that both sides should arrive at the place of the duel at the exact same time; Onegin exceeded all that was permissible by being more than an hour late--Y.L.].
Paul's constitutes what MacIan deems the "real issue" of the argument between the two
duelists. (10) Additionally, Martin Gardner identifies the ball and the cross as the novel's "central symbolism," and David Dooley asserts that "the point of the book is clear enough: the modern world tries to do without the cross, but it cannot do so.
(Side note: More research revealed that over 1000
duelists were killed in New Orleans, and on average, only 1 in 14 people died in duels.
As in the olden days, today's adversarial trial is a judicially sanctioned duel, but so often the
duelists are not of equal ability or capability.
It's not that the
duelists could choose a less violent way to couple.
Just as
duelists had their seconds, so Biggs and Fox had their preferred organ-builders: G.
Years in the future, in a land inaccessible to the rest of the world, is a unique boarding school which educates promising young
duelists to achieve their full potential.
The last chapter, "When Women Fight," examines female
duelists in drama.
(16) Some of them had left the University of Jena at the turn of the 19th century, as the anti-duel movement gained momentarily momentum and pressure was on the habitual
duelists. (17) They brought with them from their first alma mater the strong student mensuur tradition which came to be an essential and important part of the Corps life at the University of Tartu for well over 100 years.
One of the first
duelists ever to be charged with murder, Burr fled south to avoid arrest.
The
duelists are anxious not to miss any of the wonderful performance, and they wipe the rime off their little eyes' long eyelashes.
Freeman shows how, in the early days of the American Republic, the
duelists found themselves for the first time performing, as it were, before a wider audience.
(7) In Conrad's story, the
duelists engage in a combat that reflects Napoleon's career, which "had the quality of a duel against the whole of Europe," even though Napoleon "was not a swashbuckler, and had little respect for tradition," and consequently "disliked duelling between the officers of his army" (165).
