On Sun, 5 Jan 1997, Zen wrote:

Normally, Zen would just send these comments to Franz-san directly, but
Franz-san's ISP is bouncing anything routed from the Mindspring Domain.
*sigh*

We host some big mail lists here. Any problems with mail spammers gets
multiplied several hundred times - so we block domains that have
repeat problems. Sorry.

One technical quibble, is in reference to your use of the Dragon Hair
material.

When Ranma actually consumed the food that had been prepared with the
Dragon Hair, he was in FEmale form.  The Dragon Hair only affects men, so
it is not that it doesn't carry over to the female form, it would have no
effect on the femal form anyway.  As a result, the dragon Hair binding is
NOT necessary when Ranma is a girl.  Lastly, At the end of the story where
the Dragon Hair is mentioned, the effect of the food that Ranma ate wears
off, and Ranma's hair no longer grows at an accelerated rate in either
form.

Yes, but since the anime episode this story is based on doesn't appear to
have *any* corresponding existence in the manga - I can get away with
putting it earlier in time. ^_^

A wooden katana is more properly referred to as a "bokken", or, if it is
made of bamboo, a "shinnai"

I thought so - but after spending a hour searching through all my Japanese
dictionaries I gave up and changed it to katakana. I then *meant* to
change it to 'wooden sword' just to be safe - but forgot.

Zen very much liked your descriptive prose - well written and evocative-
good handling of highly charged emotional matters.  Zen will be looking
forward to future fics from you, to be sure.

Thanks. Look for version 1.1 of it today sometime (just patching the big
holes people noticed ^_^).

-- 
Benjamin Franz