wyrmouroboros at comcast.net wrote: >>I think there's something of Loiosh in our Esteemed Author's >>psychological make-up. >>-- Mark A. Mandel >> >> > >Out of the very nature of the writer. If there was not, Loiosh would not exist. Or, to maul Mssr. Descarte's famous aphorism: > > "Steve thinks, therefore Loiosh is." > >Every roleplayer instinctively knows the line of Whitman's Song of Myself: "(I am large, I contain multitudes.)" Every writer knows it as well. I do, in list and Vlad tradition, generalize off one example, namely myself -- but it is logical, obvious, veritably a necessity of the condition of playing a role, of writing the actions of others of not-necessarily-like-minds. Which would, of course, suggest that actors share this 'insanity' as well... > >I, for one, am glad I am in such good company. > > >Thomas Crain > > I have to admit to being a roleplayer and being familiar with the Whitman quote only because Chris Turkel uses it as a sig file. I don't know how it instinctively applies to roleplaying. Do I appear dense? Very well, I appear dense (I am large, I take up space) Jose -- Jose Marquez jhereg69 at earthlink.net