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
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