From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   J.Pascal used his keyboard to write :   
   > On Saturday, November 29, 2014 2:55:04 PM UTC-7, William Vetter wrote:   
   >> Michelle Bottorff was thinking very hard :   
   >>> J.Pascal  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> A relatively "big" author (I remember who but I'm going to mangle the   
   >>>> quote so I probably ought not say that so and so said this exactly) once   
   >>>> explained that if the purpose is emotional engagement and emotional   
   >>>> response that negative emotions are the easiest to manipulate.  That   
   >>>> "happy" is actually, artistically, more difficult to do well.   
   >>>   
   >>> I find it way easier to annoy people than to make their day, for sure.   
   >>>>> rueful::   
   >>   
   >> Do you think _Romeo and Juliet_ sucks?   
   >   
   > What point are you trying to make?   
   >   
   Sorry, I was responding to this one:   
      
   I almost always consider a tragic ending to signify a lack of   
   imagination and intelligence on the part of the writer.   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)