From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, July 28, 2014 12:43:17 AM UTC-4, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:   
   > In article <164f0216-3289-42ec-aad0-51a29b1af0c5@googlegroups.com>,   
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   > William Vetter   wrote:   
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   > >On Sunday, July 27, 2014 5:18:52 PM UTC-4, Shawn Wilson wrote:   
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   > >> Sorry, no.  I don't believe in characters having 'flaws'.   
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   > >Personalities, sure.  But not overt flaws.  How many people do you know   
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   > >in the real world (or fiction) with overt flaws?   
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   > >You should read Plutarch's Lives.  It's about character flaws.   
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   > Don't forget the Secret Histories of Procopius of Caesarea.   
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   > Thomasus: "You know what the Empress Theodora used to complain   
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   > Padway: "Yes," and told him what the Empress Theodora used to   
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   > complain about.  ... He didn't trouble to tell Thomasus that he   
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   > had read that particular bit of dirt in Procopius's Secret   
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   > Histories, which hadn't been written yet.   
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   You shouldn't laugh.  Shakespeare read Plutarch.   
      
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