Blakes7 June 2001

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Re: [B7L] Where is everybody?
by Natasa Tucev 13 Jun '01

13 Jun '01

Trying to catch up... Kat wrote: >Leonora suffered from having been part of a DPR publicity >drive to get more people tested for paranormal abilities. >Everywhere she goes, she generates enormous quantities >of rubbish. >It's discovered during the course of the story that the rubbish >she generates tends to be, well, not valuable, but not just household >rubbish. A half-brick turns out to be rose marble, an old >glove is 17th century Venetian kid leather, and mammoth eyelashes >in dust bunnies. Both Una's anegdote and this comment have reminded me of a story I read by Borges, called "Urbis Tertius" or something like this. Imagine you lose a pencil. You tell someone about it. Both of you start looking, you find the lost pencil, but you don't tell the other person. So he/she keeps looking and finds another pencil. Such an object, IIRC, is called a 'hren', and is usually longer and thinner than the original one. Next, Borges tells how a group of convicts were ordered to excavate on a place which wasn't really an archaeological site, and they came up with extraordinary finds. This is all going on in some imaginary land, where people use ajdectives and verbs instead of nouns, etc., etc., I don't recall all the weird details. Anyway, to draw an analogy, all you have to do is lose a B7 video, and ask someone to help you find it... N.

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Re: Duel
by Helen Krummenacker 13 Jun '01

13 Jun '01

> I like the idea of Sinofer and Giroc being eternally cursed to suffer one > another's company. They're so totally different. I have a feeling that they > will be released when they have both learned what they need to learn. > Well, change the names and you have a lovely premise for a PGP.

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Re: [B7L] piece of pure silliness
by Sally Manton 13 Jun '01

13 Jun '01

Minnie wrote: <Thats because you put it under female <G>> <bashful look> that would be because I didn't even see the male/female divider, whatever ... _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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Re: Hobbit Names
by Helen Krummenacker 13 Jun '01

13 Jun '01

> Kathryn Andersen" becomes "Esmerelda Knotwise of Michel Delving" > > I am secretly related to Kerr Avon. > > Well, what's new? (-8 > > Kathryn Andersen > Maiden name for me: Poppy Chubb of Deephollow... married into the Bree Gamwich family. I don't mind Poppy-- it is the California state flower and has featured in several of my paintings, but *Chubb*? I suppose if I ate like a hobbit, I would be. Hmmm... Knotwise= Not Wise? "Of all the things I was, I never recognized the fool." Take care of yourself, Kathryn. Sorry to hear about your flu. Helen

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Re: [B7L] re: 20 moments that make us cringe
by Sally Manton 13 Jun '01

13 Jun '01

Betty wrote: <Surely I can't be the only one who *likes* the aliens in "Duel"?> Well, me for another. Sinofar is a bit pompous (especially when reading the script :-) but I like the actress too much to care (and it's wonderful how much difference a beautiful voice makes). Giroc is great fun, and wonderfully inadequate for super-alienness. And I like the way they're so intent on teaching their oddly pointless little lesson to two men, one who doesn't need to learn it ("I've seen friends die") and the other who is incapable of learning it. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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You always hurt the ones you love
by Mistral 13 Jun '01

13 Jun '01

Just ran across an interesting misspelling on the net: sado-machinism. Now I find myself wondering if this is an accurate description of Vila's relationship with Orac. Mistral -- "Ad hoc, ad loc, and quid pro quo. So little time! So much to know!" --Jeremy Hilary Boob, Ph.D.

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Dorset group
by Judith Proctor 13 Jun '01

13 Jun '01

The next meeting of the Dorset group is this Saturday at my place. Anyone living in easy reach of Poole/Wimborne is welcome. Arrive around 12 if you want to watch a video and around 2pm if you want to skip the video. Bring nibbles for communal consumption. e-mail me for directions if needed. The address is 28 Diprose Rd, Corfe Mullen. Judith -- http://www.hermit.org/Blakes7 - Fanzines for Blake's 7, B7 Filk songs, pictures, news, Conventions past and present, Blake's 7 fan clubs, Gareth Thomas, etc. (also non-Blake's 7 zines at http://www.knightwriter.org ) Redemption '03 21-23 Feb 2003 http://www.smof.com/redemption/

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piece of pure silliness
by Sally Manton 13 Jun '01

13 Jun '01

Iain gave us a wonderful 'Reveal your Hobbit name' site at http://www.chriswetherell.com/hobbit/default.asp and I had to try out My Darling ... Somehow, he just doesn't have the same aura of mystery and menace as 'Goldilocks Knotwise of Michel Delving', does he? _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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avon and sense
by Alison Page 13 Jun '01

13 Jun '01

Sorry I've had to change the subject heading because I've accidentally deleted yesterday's emails that I wanted to reply to. Someone was posting about sense being Avon's least favoured mode of interaction with the world, and I think that's probably right. I was thinking of 'player of games' by Iain M Banks. A robot drone is looking after the eponymous player, who is a very intellectualised sort of chap. The drone performs a routine medical scan and realises the guy is bursting to go to the loo, but is so absorbed in his intellectual game-playing that he hasn't noticed the signal from his own nervous system. I do know lots of very sensible people who take exactly the opposite view though (Dana I think you take a different view on this?) and feel that Avon is quite a sensual person, engaged very much with physical comforts and sensory experience. Of course anyone, no matter how intellectual and introverted, can develop sensory expertise, if only from dogged practice. So, Avon could perhaps have worked very hard on his shooting skills, helped no doubt by the speed and skill with which he can mentally process the sense input once he has learned the knack. So what do you think - is Avon sensual and physically adept, or not? Alison ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. www.mimesweeper.com **********************************************************************

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Re: 20 moments that make us cringe
by Helen Krummenacker 13 Jun '01

13 Jun '01

1. For me, personally. When I finally got to see the tapes-- no more having the picture half blurred with static-- and saw how truely cheesy the space backdrops looked. 2. All scenes with placid, drugged characters. 3. The big lever in Dawn of the Gods... Thaarn obviously never read the Evil Overlord guide. Don't put your self-destruct device where everyone can play with it. 4. Dayna getting brainwashed in Animals in about, oh, half-an-hour? 5. the mummy in Voice From the Past. That was so cheesy I could never get past it mentally to give the scenes a chance in any other way. 6. Big, thuggy, barbarians. 7. Jarvik's "Me, Tarzan" attitude. 8. The Altas-- the costumes, the acting. 9. Tarrant and Servalan in Sand *ewwww* 10. Avon's problem-solving methods in Sand. 11. Spacerats 12. Piri's inability to act. 13. When the highly suspicious rebels walk open eyed into traps that would have an 8-year old putting the door on a chain before opening it. 14. Dialogue for Slave 15. Servalan's panic attack in ORAC (this woman leads the military?) 16. Cally getting taken over by ANOTHER telepathic influence. 17. Self-immolation in Volcano. 18. Vila in Sarcophogas, fleeing from the Attack of the Floating Lyre 19. The self-important aliens in Duel 20. Blake and Avon laughing about the intelligent flea (with snide glances referring over to Vila). It was forced, unfunny, and out of place.

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