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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN)
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Subject: Heavy winds and heavy talk
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Date: Fri, 27-Sep-85 06:47:15 EDT
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[Sorry this is so long after the fact, but I've been busy lately.]

> From:	cmu-cs-k!tim	(Tim Maroney)
 
> I also appreciated [Leeper's] point about heavy emotional scenes in the middle
> of whirlwinds; this is one of the oldest and stupidest of comic book cliches.

Why? I'm serious. Why is it stupid? It looks strange and silly to us, to be
sure, because we don't have super-powers. But consider --- in a world in which
super-powers *do* exist, and some character has the ability to create a whirl-
wind with about the same effort as she can walk, why shouldn't she conjure one
up to carry herself and someone else off somewhere for a *really* private con-
versation. That's the key. Things that seem strange and silly for us may well
*not* to inhabitants to such a world. Think about it.

--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA)

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