On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Philip Hart wrote: >> >The author throws himself at your feet? >> >> You're really getting the hang of "how to be snarky", aren't you? ;-) > >Got dumped at least once today, it provokes some bitterness. Oh, cheer up. Whatever does not kill you, gives you the opportunity to counterattack -- as Nietzsche might have put it if he was the snarky type. >Or this list is wearing off on me. That's just the glomp fetishists. (Ooooh, did I type that out loud?) >> You mean like many -- indeed, most -- of the times that Loiosh says >> something snarky and Vlad says "Shut up, Loiosh?" >He's not embarrassed then, is he? I thought that was banter. Or >stress-relieving insults. Well, I suppose it's that, more often than not, now that I think about it. Vlad probably has more reason to feel annoyed more often than embarrassed, although he seems to have a good poker face most of the time. > I don't recall Loiosh showing Vlad up. Not so much showing him up as getting off some good zingers. > That would actually be interesting - conflict between witch and >familiar - given that they're stuck together. I think it's because they are so close that Loiosh's comments are capable of being embarrassing. They've shared each others' brains (and sometimes I think that might be a literal explanation of the witch-familiar bond) for so long that certain types of remarks are all the more likely to hit a sensitive area. > >Just to further expound on my misinterpretation there, I was thinking >that Kiera had made a move on Vlad at some point (in Jhereg we see them >smooch a little I think) I note a certain subtle character mismatch between the Kiera of "Jhereg" and the Kiera of "Orca" - in "Orca", Kiera seems to me to be too distant and self-controlled to do something so uninhibited as that earlier smooch. Although maybe Vlad was being unreliable about that kiss.