On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 11:55:12AM -0400, Chris Turkel <zizban at adelphia.net> wrote: > On May 11, 2004, at 11:43 AM, Matthew Hunter wrote: > >This paragraph is fairly reassuring. > >It is widely speculated that one of the reasons Jordan's series > >degenerated so rapidly was because the online fan base engaged in > >such extensive (one might even say "rabid") analysis of the > >books. The author noticed this and seemed to become annoyed that > >we were unravelling a substantial fraction of his mysteries > >before the story did, and so he started obfuscating them even > >more (some would argue that he even changed his plans to avoid > >giving the "accepted wisdom on the net" answer to some). > That's an interesting theory. I always though he had diarrhea of the > word processor myself. Certainly there's room for more than just one cause. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp