From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   On 11/9/14, 3:53 PM, William Vetter wrote:   
   > On Sunday, November 9, 2014 1:42:53 AM UTC-5, J.Pascal wrote:   
   >> So... I did nothing today, but I was thinking that I should open one of my   
   working files and plunge into an action scene that I figured out comes next,   
   pulls my people into the fray in a way they can't avoid because I'd been   
   trying to figure out why    
   they would start hunting monsters instead of just go home.  The "but why me?"   
   question seems to be an important one and "because the author wants you to"   
   might be the real answer but there has to be a plot answer too, so, I'd   
   *found* the plot answer...   
   >   
   > Why did Ahab hunt the whale?   
   >   
      
      
   	Because it took off his leg and if he couldn't get the leg back, the   
   whale wasn't going to live to enjoy it either.   
      
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