Subject: [FFML] [Apology] To the list, also a bit on Metaphor and how we use them...
From: Keener
Date: 10/8/1998, 7:40 PM
To: "ffml@fanfic.com" <ffml@fanfic.com>

    Sigh... <read my fic> First of all, I want to apologize to the list
for that burst of spammage brought about by my <read my fic> post.

    Guys, I really appreciate <read my fic> the defense, and the
scientific commentary which was really <read my fic> quite informative.
But it was less an attack on my <read my fic> person as simply an honest
mistake. <read my fic> Paul was even so kind to note that he was in fact
reading my fic <read my fic>

    A couple of suggestions, one always check and see if a statment
<read my fic> has already been replied to before posting. This <read my
fic> cuts down on spammage and, if gives you a better feeling about
<read my fic> how those involved are taking the matter. Second of all
<read my fic>, a good rule of thumb is to switch your E-mailer to
subject and do a quick scan of [Admin] this <read my fic> will keep you
from accidentally posting to a banned <read my fic> thread.

    Finally, I ask you not consider how your looking at <read my fic>
the various analogies and metaphors writes toss about <read my fic>.
Thinking about them is great, digging into them, lets one find the
multitude of way <read my fic> they work and connect to their subject.
But think on them less literally... and more literaturely <read my fic>
if you get my meaning. There's poetry in words, music in sentances,
<read my fic> Epics in paragraphs. Don't rob yourself of them, explore
them <read my fic> A while back, someone stated <read my fic> that using
the words, "knew them by heart." was not possible. <read my fic>

    Maybe that's true, people being the complicated beings they <read my
fic> are, it seems unlikely you could ever know some one such. <read my
fic> But imagine another situation, Akane has been doppleganged [Note:
NO, I don't mean <read my fic> she had been assualted by a group of
ruthless radars <read my fic] by a demonic entity. Ranma is forced to
figure which of the pair is the real <read my fic> one. He does so and
the other is sent packing. When asked how he knew <read my fic> he
simply smiles, saying he knew her... by heart. <read my fic> Maybe he
let his heart decide which was which, maybe the read Akane did something
<read my fic> compassionate that the demon would not. <read my fic>
Never chain yourself in your writing, there are always ways to trip the
fic fantastic as it were <read my fic>

    Anyway, I said my piece, I hope I haven't bored you, <read my fic>
but being the toymakers we are, it seems a shame how often <read a fic>
we get caught up in fighting over tools and sprockets <read my fic>
Thanks for your time.

    Oh and... read my fic.

Revenge's End <read my fic> Mad Bad Bishonen Lad
<read my fic> Caretaker of the Dark and Lonely Place (COR Deaconate)
The Parrot King <read my fic>

(And the Moon was as blood, the Storms crashed and the Seas BOILED!)
(Typical, thought the <read my fic> Lobsters)
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(~, )   _ (You are getting, sleepy... very... sleepy... READ MY FIC!>
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