From: Chris Davies <cdavies@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>

On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, H. Torrance Griffin wrote:

Good 'fic, but I mist ask why in the Sam Hill Nabiki would do
something this deranged?

    To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else,
    it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and
    hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses,
    mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my
    bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine
    enemies; and what's his reason? I am [Nabiki]. Hath
    not [Nabiki] eyes? hath not [Nabiki] hands, organs,
    dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with
    the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
    to the same diseases, healed by the same means,
    warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as
    [Ranma] is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
    if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison
    us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not
    revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will
    resemble you in that.

The Merchant of Venice, Act 3, Scene 1.

Hmm...What to say...What to say....??

Hakuna..Matata!

But, seriously.  What is a fic that doesn't let the reader make up his/her
own judgement, draft his/her own conclusion?  Pretty plain, I guess.  What's
more important for me is that the reader learns something from what he/she
reads, not realizing the he/she or the it in the story did something or
didn't do something.  Like a couple of spams ago, what did we learn from
that?  That fashion is an understatement?  I wouldn't bet on it.  It is
being judged, plain and simple...the cruelties and and agony that goes along
with it.

Oh, well...I'm ranting...

Great reply though Chris. ^_^  Thank you.  I wonder if anything Tom Clancy
wrote can apply to anything I write. <g>