From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote :   
   > On 11/29/14, 4:54 PM, 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?   
   >   
   >   
   > 	Yep. As RAH said, "Even the immortal Will had his off-days."   
      
   Unless I'm mistaken, he wrote more tradgedies than comedies.   
      
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