At 11:56 AM 8/16/2002 -0700, David Silberstein wrote: > > I find it interesting that Steve is so much in favor of flat, >unambiguous statements when so much of his writing is about characters >who often are quite deliberately ambiguous, or deliberately vague, or >who use carefully worded statements to give a completely wrong >impression of the facts (like Aerich's accusation to Shaltre). But David, that is exactly the point. I cannot make an elegant point of how vague a character is being unless he has the ability to precise and doesn't take it.