Comments on: Can fiction change your personality?

By: annette

annette — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:42:09 +0000

just to check the accuracy of my inner barometer of reality, yesterday i saw (with my 21 year old daughter happily in tow) a local college stage production of–suprise–”pippi”. no need to reiterate–she rocks. the median age in the audience was about 8.5 (excluding my attendance which would, in and of itself, push it to 15) and they went wild. here is this totally irreverent little girl who happens to be the “strongest person in the world”, has a horse, a monkey, a chest of gold, a mama in heaven and a papa who’s a pirate, doesn’t go to school and only sometimes tells the truth. keep in mind she has no technology (other than imagination and magic) to work with here–bj you MUST rethink you position on this. (ps, my daughter agrees).

By: robin

robin — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 03:38:10 +0000

Patrick, ????

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 19:18:02 +0000

9. Daniel Jackson

By: bj

bj — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:41:41 +0000

My list–

Maybe this is why I’m not a writer.

Annette, Pippi was cool, though I never wanted to BE her.

By: robin

robin — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:23:35 +0000

Diana, I admit I had to look that up. I never saw Anne of Green Gables. Are you telling me there’s a chunk missing in my childhood development?

By: Diana

Diana — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:40:07 +0000

Mostly Anne Shirley. Actually, pretty much only Anne Shirley.

Some Princess Leia. Some Jo March.

By: Herb

Herb — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:31:48 +0000

Annette, scary?, troublesome? Yes but, I found that with the proper medication, no one has a clue. Lets keep it our secret.

By: annette

annette — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 03:57:48 +0000

full on oops as to lazarus, brother of somebody in the bible raised from the dead or whatever, and i did read ayn rand or at least the cliff notes on whatever class it was were we had to read “atlas shrugged” but the fact that herb knows this and at the least fantasy lives is, awesome but perhaps scary or at least troublesome.

By: robin

robin — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 03:47:40 +0000

Um, Annette, Gandalf is from Lord of the Rings, and that’s all I’m saying because I can’t believe you’re not one of us.

And Lucifer, not Lazarus, is Satan, but Michael is an angel, so you gained a point there.

And to tell you the truth, other than the Ayn Rand characters, Michael, and Gandalf, I didn’t know any of Herb’s people, either.

But I was just happy he–and all the rest of you–showed up and played along. It’s so much more fun that way.

By: annette

annette — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 01:30:22 +0000

“yes to gandalf, of course”–who the hell is gandalf?? i don’t care how much scorn is heaped upon me, i admit i will have to look up every one of herb’s fantasy alter-egos except lazarus (as long as that is lazarus, aka SATAN) and michael (as long as that is michael, avenging angel of god). geesh, and i thought patrick was a lot of work.