>>Um, did you argue with the author about the motivations of his own,
>>self-identified character?
>>
>Nooo, I was pointing out something that Geoff himself said about his
>UF Self. Maybe he didnt use my phraseology, but as Geoff points out
>in his reply to you, it WAS, as I noted, the 1 2 punch of having to go
>after one of the Lovely Angels, whom he had a crush on as a child, on
>top of the unresolved feeling about the waitress rubout that went all
>pear shaped on him.

I bow to your perspicacity. It's just that the idea of "dumb luck" and "flaw in the psych profile" don't mesh in my world. He would have cracked eventually, it was only a question of when.

>I dunno if I agree with you. At least in UF Geoff's case, he seems to
portray their brainwashing as "Be nice to the peons unless they get in
>our way, as these will be your subjects once you rule the galaxy"...
>which also makes sense in a sick, pavlovian way. Again, My
>interpretation of Geoff's words.

I think that's a very generous interpretation of UF-Geoff's world view when he was with Big Fire. It's certainly not how Big Fire views the world. After all, you'd either with them or dead.

yours,
t.

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