From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article <1lt3p19.hdd3x91d3t35sN%mbottorff@lshelby.com>,   
   Michelle Bottorff  wrote:   
   >J.Pascal  wrote:   
   >   
   >> All things are tools and it's stupid not to use them or to be convinced   
   >> you ought not use them because someone else used them badly.   
   >>   
   >> Saying "You can't use weather to indicate mood" is like saying "no more   
   >> using short words and sentences to heighten a sense of urgency."   
   >   
   >Yeah, but always using storms to indicate tension or what-have-you is   
   >boring.  You can actually create many different moods from the same type   
   >of weather.  It's all in how you describe it.   
   >   
   >Rain can be depressing, or refreshing, or calming, or forboding, or   
   >cleansing...  etc.   
      
   Or desperately longed for, as in California.   
      
   I get SO pissed-off when the radio announcer says, "It's going to   
   be a BEAUTIFULK day, sunny and warm!!"'   
      
   I wish Arizona or the Midwest or somebody could send us their   
   excess rain.   
      
   --   
   Dorothy J. Heydt   
   Vallejo, California   
   djheydt at gmail dot com   
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