At 10:41 PM 2/15/99 -0800, Krista Perry wrote:
<Oh, come on, you've read it by now, and if you haven't, why not?
 What would the point of reading this message if you haven't?>


Ahem.


And now, I would like to address a little problem, to note a little
quandry I am in. You see, Hearts of Ice is coming to an end, right?
I don't know whether I should be happy or not.

Let me explain, let me explain.

On one hand, that's good, becuase I want to see what's going to happen
and I get to read it and stuff. I like that. That makes me happy. Well,
keeps me happy, at any rate, because I'm a very happy kinda guy. Always
laughing and giggling and stuff, even around knives and chainsaws and...
yes, well, at any rate I'm not one to suffer bouts of depression, suffice
it to say.

On the other hand though, once it ends, what then? No more parts to read,
that's what! It's done, finish, kaput, khattam-shud! I like reading
Hearts of Ice. I like seeing each new part coming out and reading them.
I think that it is a good thing, doing that. Now once HoI is done, I won't
be able to do that. I don't like that. It is not something which will
keep me happy. 

Do you see my dilemma? ^_^

			--Waiting for part 22, Krista, but don't rush, never rush.
				Rushing won't make it better, and a bit of a wait
				just makes the next part all the more delectable. ^_^


Matthew Lewis is:
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	a casualty of causality
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	"Khattam-Shud," he said slowly, "is the Arch-Enemy
of all Stories, even of Language itself. He is the Prince of
Silence and the Foe of Speech. And because everything ends,
because dreams end, stories end, life ends, at the finish
of everything we use his name. 'It's finished,' we tell one
another, 'it's over. Khattam-Shud: The End.'"

	-excerpted from Haroun and the Sea of Stories,
		by Salman Rushdie
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