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   mumble to Jacey Bedford   
   Re: One Wish...   
   12 Jun 14 04:19:53   
   
   From: mumble@nomail.invalid   
      
   On 06/11/2014 09:24 AM, Jacey Bedford wrote:   
   > On 11/06/2014 09:32, mumble wrote:   
   >> On 06/09/2014 10:17 PM, Bill Swears wrote:   
   >>> On 6/3/2014 5:47 PM, Carl Dershem wrote:   
   >>>> For a current WIP:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> You are given one wish (with the usual caveats - no wishing for more   
   >>>> wishes, no breaking the wall between life and death, no interfering   
   >>>> with   
   >>>> someone else's Free Will).  What do you wish for?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> cd   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> A three book contract.   
   >>   
   >> Contracts are muse-death.   
   >   
   >   
   > Yes, dear, of course they are.   
   > :-)   
      
   Yes honeybunch, they certainly are; compare having a contract which   
   obligates you to grind out the words, with having the ability to write   
   as much or as little as you choose, or perhaps just sit and stare off   
   into space, and see if you don't agree that a muse constrained by your   
   obligations is perhaps not the happiest of muses.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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