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Haunted Air question - Bluesman Mike Lindner - 03-21-2010 Peter Wrote:Exactly right Blues. I have been in a few sort of awkward situations with my beloved Val which would not have bothered me in the slightest on my own. I can fight or I can back off. But with your lady there you are left with just the one option so you tend to be more careful because of that. Spoken like a man of sense, Peter. Haunted Air question - webby - 03-21-2010 Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:Is that uniquely American? Very insightful, Mike. And I agree. I've thought Gia was annoying at times, but it's true that she gives Jack a necessary balance. She also has come to understand him and why he does what he does much more in the latest RJ books. Haunted Air question - Ken Valentine - 03-22-2010 unsupervised Wrote:like the potential spoiler alert LibbyAs I see it, you find that so much in fiction because you find it so often in real life. (But I don't consider it a weakness.) Ken V. Haunted Air question - wdg3rd - 03-31-2010 Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:Is that uniquely American? I've been a fan of Alexandre Dumas for over four decades (I once read his stuff in the original, though these days I couldn't read a Kaybeck traffic sign without a LaRousse). Hell, just in The Three Musketeers there are at least five examples of women bringing the heroes almost to grief because of the romantic side. (Haven't reread it in a couple of decades, probably forgetting a few other incidents, so I'm low-balling it -- those five you'll find in the 70s pair of movies covering the book, anyway -- the ones with Michael York, who in those days I was told I resembled, but my hair was never that neat and my nose was never that straight). Haunted Air question - unsupervised - 03-31-2010 I see I may have been to hasty in describing it as uniquely American and a sources of weakness. But we often see the underlaying plot line.... loner-boy is unbeatable, boy meets girl, girl is kidnapped, boy has to rescue girl, etc etc. sure, there is usually a happy ending but can anyone deny that the formula is tiresome? As a RJ fan, I know the story is more complex. As a man that knows what it's like to be ungrounded, I know that life is more complex. Maybe I'm just jaded by the mandatory love-interest that Hollywood tosses to us, over and over. Or maybe the thought of someone using my loved-ones in a leverage game against me is just too unsettling Haunted Air question - wdg3rd - 04-01-2010 unsupervised Wrote:I see I may have been to hasty in describing it as uniquely American and a sources of weakness. The thought of someone using my loved-ones in a leverage game against me would make me go just a little bit more postal than Jack did in All the Rage. There aren't that many of them (and sorry, but none of them are close relatives -- folks can threaten my blood-kin all they want, it won't get a rise out of me). There are only two living people on this planet that I would live or die for, they and maybe four others that I would die for [the maybe is because you don't really know until TSHTF, and circumstances concerning the first two would take priority]). Yeah, I've spent some fair amount of time ungrounded. The few who ground me are sacred. |