[the_old_crowd] Re: Of Hxs and parasites

[Kat Macfarlane]

But horseboxes - they're in the list of possible plot patches that I
mentioned previously. Doesn't seem to have been thought through, unlike
most of the other plot devices. All sorts of questions arise - how many 
pieces can it be divided into; are they all the same size; if so, how, when the 
splitting is performed piecemeal at ad hoc intervals; is a fraction is equal to
the whole; aren't souls supposed to be the one indestructible personal part?
- and so on. I get the impression that someone has painted themselves
into a corner and hxs are the only way to extricate themselves from a
sticky situation, plotwise.
Could be wrong, but there again....

Gatta now:

I'm with you there. Sounds like a cute and clever plot device that came along with unanticipated baggage, rather like the house elves.


Nah. No sympathy needed, thanks. 
Spent a lot of time in a lot of places in Africa, (see list of places where 
I've been arrested - rule No. 1, it's always the wrong visa, especially at a 
land border crossing miles from anywhere), ten years in the Middle East, 
another 5 years commuting out there (usually monthly), years (or it feels 
like it) at check-ins, check-outs, customs, immigration, (with fixers intent
on baksheesh/dash/cadeau), waiting lounges with no a/c - all for the 
inestimable joys of lost baggage and airline food. Then having to get to 
grips with places hot, foreign and usually not particularly salubrious.
Now I stay in my own little lair and avoid any kind of travel whenever 
possible. In the past two years I've turned down contracts that required
travel to Russia, Pakistan, the Virgin Islands, Iraq, Mozambique and Barbados.
No regrets.
A burnt-out case.

Kneasy

Gatta now:

I hear you. I too hate to travel, fly, go by train, ride in cars..., having spent most of my childhood and youth doing it and contracting, among other things, tuberculosis in Panama and a chronic sensitivity to motion sickness on the way home as a kid. Now I don't even commute to work. It's lovely.

Who, by the way, came up with this idiotic canned formatting with all the quaint little floating text boxes? Anybody come up with a way to turn it off, other than, as I do, editing the HTML source?

Purrs!

Gatta
Quantum me cogitis omnes!

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