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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   
   .   
      
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