Subject: Re: [FFML] [C&C] [Lemon] Needs and Desires - TIL Side Story
From: Sebastian Weinberg
Date: 8/9/1996, 6:22 AM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com


On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Travis Butler wrote:

From:        Sebastian Weinberg, bastian@enterprise.mathematik.uni-essen.de

Whoa!  I don't have the time to do in-depth reviews.  God, I
don't have the time to do in-depth *reading*.  If my workload got
any fuller, I wouldn't have the time to *breath*!

Now wait a minute here! *Who* was it that groused about my doing a WFL 
review of "Brother," even after I left the Shampoo side-story open for 
them to do? ^_^

Errhem.  That was, when I thought I'd still have the time to do that.  I 
*might* do it sometime soon, since it seems that the next week, at least, 
will be a lot less stressful.  I might even get to read something *new*. :}


Yep, this is a kind of trademark for Richard.  It *does* happen,
though.  Especially so, since the characters in _Ranma 1/2_ all
share the same kind of deluded denial that strains against the
forces of better knowledge.  Complete and utter turnabouts of
attitude are more likely in such situations than just slight
modifications.  Just as it is easier to go from love straight to
hate (or the other way round in Ukyou's case) than to go from love
to indifference.

Hmmm. Well... perhaps. My point was that even if the attitudes are 
delusional constructs (which I don't think is terribly likely in this 
case), if they're strongly held it's not at all likely that they'll just 
'go away' in a flash. Even if they're false, proven to be false, and even 
*accepted* as false by the holder, force of habit will still bring up the 
attitudes until the habit is broken. In some cases, the habit has been 
worn down over time, so that the emotional storm can and does break the 
habit altogether -- that's what I meant by 'prepared for in advance.' We 
saw this with Shampoo in TIL; Richard brings up past examples of 
Shampoo's changing attitude (like saving Akane from the phoenix) to show 
how the change was not something sudden, but something that had come over 
time.

And I agree with you.  I did not mean to imply that your criticism of 
Nabiki's sudden change was undue.  I just meant to say that, perhaps, 
Richard got into the habit of doing it this way, because it *is* 
appropriate to most of Ranma's fiances (plus Ryouga).  Kunou's character, 
for example, was built more slowly - although he copped out a little by 
stating that he wasn't that bad, all along; We just got to see only one 
side of him in the manga. :)


A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely
rearranging their prejudices.
       - William James

How appropriate. :)

To what?  I *hope* you meant the story and Nabiki's change of attitude - 
hope for you, that is. >:)


Sebastian
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