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Jerry Brown  
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 More options Oct 9 2012, 5:01 pm
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From: Jerry Brown <je...@jwbrown.co.uk.invalid>
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 22:01:14 +0100
Local: Tues, Oct 9 2012 5:01 pm
Subject: Re: Quickly fixing science fiction
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On Tue, 09 Oct 2012 07:43:03 +0100, David Mitchell

<david.robot.mitch...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 09/10/12 07:38, David DeLaney wrote:
>> Howard Brazee<how...@brazee.net>  wrote:
>>>> 2) I generally don't care what you think.  Really.  You're not a real
>>>> person.  You're a simulation of a real person by the kind of person who
>>>> became a science fiction author.

>>> I don't understand what you're saying here.

>> He doesn't want to read the characters schmoozing about their feelings, or
>> explaining to each other why they're doing what they do when, as it turns
>> out, that's basically the same reason a normal person would do it, except
>> it's vast and strange to the AUTHOR. Yes?

>Yes.  I don't really "get" feelings, even in real life - possibly I;m
>too British; so I really, really, don't care what imaginary people are
>feeling.

>--
>David Mitchell
>No, not that one.

Are you sure you;re not that one? You certainly sound like him.

--
Jerry Brown

A cat may look at a king
(but probably won't bother)


 
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