From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   On 11/29/14, 6:25 PM, William Vetter wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   	Hamlet was a good tragedy, though I wince writing that, and so was   
   MacBeth. But R&J was not. Too much "MY GOD YOU PEOPLE ARE MORONS", or   
   else "I think you meant this to be funny, but it's not".   
      
   	   
      
      
      
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