From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, October 19, 2014 5:38:37 AM UTC-4, Jymesion wrote:   
   > On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 22:44:36 -0400, Brenda Clough   
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   > >Mmm, then that gives you an opening. The local baron is oppressed by   
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   > >three older sisters, who boss him unmercifully, drink all his wine, and   
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   > >spend far too much of the barony's income on fashion. All his   
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   > >neighboring barons are either viciously ambitious, so that he does not   
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   > >dare to empower them by handing off a sister in marriage, or already   
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   > >happily married and so unavailable. What he needs, yes! is a convent.   
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   > >Essentially a socially allowable way to get his sisters to live   
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   > >somewhere else. And look! here is a handy foreigner who is anxious to do   
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   > >business. For the mere founding of an Abbey dedicated to St. Catherine,   
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   > >sir, you got a deal.   
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   > Brilliant! I'm sure that scenario could be written very convincingly.   
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   > Sadly, not by me. I could never make it ring true because my real-life   
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   > experiences (I had two older sisters) are so very contrary:   
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   > 1) If they're bossy, how does the baron force them to move into a   
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   > convent?  Through bribery, coercion, or guile, I can sometimes get a   
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   > man to do something that wasn't his idea, but I can't imagine making a   
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   > woman do anything she didn't want to do.   
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   The Claudian Emperors sent their daughters and sisters into exile for   
   immorality, made them dive for sponges.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)