In message <19991017222829.62689.qmail@hotmail.com>, "Chris Davies" writes:
[9 MONTHS LATER]
"Was it cold?"
"It was Antarctica; of course it was cold."
"You didn't need to bring it back with you."
"I'm sorry." Gendo leaned forward and accepted Yui's
kiss. "I'm just looking forward to relaxing someplace where
there isn't any snow for a little while."
Yui smiled, and that was as much warmth as he needed.
"There's no snow in the bedroom."
"The homecoming I was looking forward to..."
And so the pair of worthless human beings who had just murdered 3 billi
on
others went and boinked each other senseless.
Whoopie.
Such an elegant and precise manner of utterly dismissing an excellent
character work because one doesn't happen to like the character.
Bravo.
For myself, I rather enjoyed this work. It's rare to see generally
despised characters written well in serious works. Then again, Lara seems
to have a history of that.
-DaR
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/* Dan Root - XTEA cipher */ static unsigned D=0x9E3779B9,l=0xC6EF3720,s;
/* t=64bit text, k=128bit key */ #define m(x,y) ((x<<4^x>>5)+(x^s)+k[s>>y&3])
void enc(int*t,int*k){for(s=0;s!=+l;){t[0]+=m(t[1],0);s+=D;t[1]+=m(t[0],11);}}
void dec(int*t,int*k){for(s=-l;s!=0;){t[1]-=m(t[0],11);s-=D;t[0]-=m(t[1],0);}}