From: mumble@nomail.invalid   
      
   On 05/29/2014 08:02 AM, William Vetter wrote:   
   > On Thursday, May 29, 2014 6:36:57 AM UTC-4, mumble wrote:   
   >> On 05/28/2014 12:20 PM, William Vetter wrote:   
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   >>> I don't know you, although I've written to you in posts a few times.  May   
   I ask if you're a writer of some sort making a comment about technique, or are   
   you a fan from rasfw giving me a sort of review?   
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   >> It doesn't matter who or what I am, what matters is how my words affect   
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   >> you;   
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   > I understand.  You are here to psychologically impact others.  A lot of   
   people on internet do that.   
      
   Yes and no.  Everybody who writes does that to psychologically impact   
   others.  That does not mean they are trolls.   
      
   Everything written, including every novel, is written to psychologically   
   impact others, even if that impact is only to cause others to pass the   
   word that something is worth reading and thus create income for the   
   author.  Some authors intend the additional psychological impact that   
   comes when information is imparted; the reader learns something, or   
   grows in some way, or is otherwise affected even if the effect is only   
   enjoyment.  Authors write to affect readers, that's the nature of it.   
   Even a shopping list is written to affect the reader who has forgotten   
   what was written on the list.   
      
   However, I will take your response to mean that you prefer not to   
   receive any help that I might be able to give you, unless you say   
   otherwise.  A lot of people prefer to do things their own way simply   
   because it is their own way.   
      
   > If it were different, you'd just tell me what you are instead of talking in   
   riddles.   
      
   It doesn't matter what I am, male, female, space-alien, published   
   author, whatever; what matters is how you are psychologically impacted   
   by the words I write.  You react defensively, you don't want to risk   
   being helped, that's fine, end of story.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)