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   William Vetter to All   
   Re: Plausible Characters?   
   30 Jul 14 15:57:22   
   
   From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   For me, "character flaw" means   
      
   Coriolanus can only relate to the common man adversarially.   
      
   Alexander is completely susceptible to flattery.   
      
   Cicero is addicted to clever sarcasms so that he makes enemies unnecessarily.   
      
   This was why I mentioned Plutarch's Lives.   
      
      
   Of course, we know that Theodora, the wife of Justinian II, was an exotic   
   dancer at the Hippodrome when she was a teenager, and later became the   
   courtesan of a regional governor.  If you know me, I would never consider   
   either of these things flaws.  I    
   think they're like, really cool.   
      
      
      
      
       
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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