On Feb 8, 2004, at 7:46 PM, Bryan Newell wrote: > [I fixed the subject line] > >> How can Devera be Mario when she is his daughter? After all, Mario and >> Aliera dallied while Dragaera burned, Aliera went missing, and we all >> know that the interaction of genetic heritage and reincarnation of the >> soul is...odd. >> On Feb 8, 2004, at 6:31 PM, Bryan Newell wrote: >> >>> Or "Devera vs Mario: Are they the same person? (They're both linked >>> to >>> Aliera, Devera went out East and Mario has an Eastern name, plus I >>> don't >>> remember seeing them both in the same place at the same time...)" >>> > > Actually, that was supposed to be funny... I meant for all three > reasons to > be patently absurd... the 2nd one is retarded, the 3rd one a play on > the > Vlad/Kiera joke from Orca... > > Reminds me of an old joke I heard some comedian make. When he was a > boy he > told the other kids he was going to grow up to be a comedian... they > just > laughed at him... well, they're not laughing now! > > > S'awright, my reply was supposed to be ironically speculative (or speculatively ironic). As to your third reason, that was a play on Clark Kent!