OT- Star Wars for Marvin

[ABoyko at starchoice.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 10667

>    Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 17:39:12 -0000
>    From: "Marvin Long" <msl at fc.net>
> Subject: Re: OT- Star Wars for Marvin
> 
> There are a couple of things missing from the quiz which convince me
> that, in fact, I have a deeper and more enduring obsession with Star
> Wars than the writer of the aforementioned quiz.  If he were as
> obsessed as I am and have been over time, he would have asked
> questions like these:
> 
> *  Did you buy and read the novelization of Star Wars in 1977 before
> you actually saw the movie?  (The book came out a couple of months in
> advance of the movie's release.)  Did you wear it out within a couple
> of months and have to buy a new one?
> 
	I first saw SW in London, 1979, and still have my battered copy of
the British edition. Little did I know that TESB was being filmed in the
city at the same time. I was 13, so I wasn't going to stalk anybody, but to
have been in the same city as Harrison Ford and not to have known ...

	Well, he's filming in Nova Scotia soon, which is 4 hours away, so
I'd better learn how to be an efficient stalker.

> *  After seeing ESB in 1980, did you spend the next couple of years
> reading everything you could about ESP and telekinesis, practicing in
> your room at night, desperately trying to move your plastic model of
> Vader's tie fighter with the power of your mind alone?
> 
> Do you still find yourself trying it on a semi-regular basis, in an
> offhand absent-minded way, even though you are now an adult?
> 
	Yes. I'm still trying to grab remote controls with my mind.

	Here are a couple more:

	* Do you consider it blasphemy when a bodybuilder uses the Star Wars
theme as his background music while he flexes for the judges?

	* Do you consider people your own age, who have never seen any of
the movies, to be mentally ill?

	Angela