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Message ID: 92
#92, RE: Christmas Rose
Posted by Gryphon on Jun-28-01 at 05:49 PM
In response to message #86
>Damn that was a good story!!!

Thanks. :)

>So, does Dorothy think that Corwin's a louse, too? :-)

No, though she occasionally claims to, just for funsies. Corwin has one major advantage over Roger Smith in the getting-along-with-Dorothy department - he likes robots, and understands them. You'll never see Corwin giving her the kind of emotional abuse that Roger did, making smart remarks about how her behavior is just mindless imitation of humans, calling her "it", talking about her like she isn't there, and so forth.

It should be noted that Dorothy isn't an emancipated robot, by the way (like Redneck's old R5 unit in Quagmire Project). She could pass Turing Board certification with ease and go do whatever she wants, but for whatever reason (which she doesn't share), she can't be bothered. That's why Len had to go down and ask for Corwin's permission to borrow her for the second trip to the Galleria; not just out of courtesy, but as required by law. A robot is a valuable piece of property. You can't just borrow one, even from your brother, without express consent of its owner.

(Corwin, who knows damn well she's fully sentient, finds it vaguely disturbing that she prefers to remain, essentially, his slave. Maybe I'll explore that further down the line, maybe I won't, so I'll mention it here in case I don't get around to it.)

>OK, lets see... Great bunch of kids there. Oh, my. Silvie's already
>quite a handful, isn't she? And she's only eleven? Scary. I've
>known girls like that. Veeerrry dangerous.

Mm. And she's playing a dangerous game, too. Someone's going to have to show her, sometime soon, that talking that good a game can put you in an awkward position if you're not careful...

>Poor Nall. It's so hard to be draconicly proud and aloof when
>someone's scratching you between your ears in just that perfect spot!

It's hard to be aloof if you're Nall anyway. He's too damn gregarious to be a proper dragon. (Though compared to his cousin the Blue Dragon, he's practically a hermit. :)

>Humm, Zoner's happy and Gryphon's angsting. And just after I'd
>re-read Hopelessly Lost, too. A happy Zoner is rather amusing.

Hey, I'm not full of angst the whole time, and when I am, I think I've got a pretty darn good reason for it...

>Loved the whole splinter scene. Corwin's fallen rather hard, hasn't
>he? Poor guy. I wonder if Anthy will be willing to share?

... er...

Well, I think I'll just leave that for another time...

--G.
(eheh... )
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