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   XPost: rec.games.chess.politics, rec.games.chess.misc, alt.chess   
   XPost: alt.psychology.personality   
   From: jurgenr@web.de   
      
   >     Dear Mr. Sloan,   
   >   
   >   You do realize that not only is Bobby   
   > Fischer dead, but that his conquest of   
   > the FIDE chess championship title is   
   > now ancient history, right?   
   >   
   >   Many people probably now regard the   
   > speculations of that Freudian psycho   
   > analyst, Mr. Fine, to be a bit "over the   
   > top" as they say, and his commentary   
   > stops rather early, while the passing   
   > of considerable time has added much   
   > that is new.   
   >   
   >   It boils down to a matter of supply vs.   
   > demand.  While there are lots of young   
   > players who may not have seen this   
   > book before, they are less likely to be   
   > obsessed with a man who retired from   
   > active play in 1972 A.D, than say,   
   > oldsters like Larry Evans or Larry Parr.   
   >   
   >   Timing is important, too.  Suppose   
   > you had just reprinted a book on the   
   > origins of the Olympics-- bingo.  But   
   > this ancient fossil of a subject -- the   
   > inner grindings of the mind of BF as   
   > interpreted by an old-school Freudian   
   > -- is, well, about as timely as disco   
   > music or a Slinky toy.  You need to   
   > like, get hip; be cool-- not square,   
   > man.  You dig?  This is not the '60s.   
   >   
   >   
   >   -- cool bot   
      
   I'm afraid you have not fully understood Sloan's   
   business model.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)