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|    William Vetter to J.Pascal    |
|    Re: Getting old and knowing better somet    |
|    10 Nov 14 06:53:47    |
      From: mdhangton@gmail.com              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...              You're making me think about character motivations. In The Scarlet Pimpernel,       young British gentry smuggle French aristocrats across the Channel apparently       for sport, perhaps for the same reason they terrorize foxes, or at least,       that's the only        explanation ever given       .              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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