The Saber Enlightenment of Star Wars

by Charles MudedeJet City Saber Guild: what serious, Lucasfilm-approved fandom looks like.COURTESY OF JET CITY SABER GUILD
For complicated reasons—busy parents, culture shock, lack of friends outside my family circle—I reached the age of 8 without seeing a single movie. The whole business was a mystery to me. Because everyone was talking about Star Wars that summer (it was 1977), I begged my Maiguru Sana (Auntie Sana, my mother's big sister) to take me to a screening of it in Walling