On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Caroline Ann Seawright wrote:

	Fanfic authors ostensibly choose from the same palette of 
characters.  This does not imply they're going to paint the same pictures.

Ah, but when the individual colours are poluted with other pigment so that
they are hardly recognisable as the original colours, apart from where
they are in the palette, then why bother using that palette at all?

	It all depends upon who is making the call, now doesn't it?  Do 
you contend that everyone should be writing within the same 
narrowly-defined canon?  Or perhaps you mean that we should all be 
writing IRC-derived spamfics?

CHL