In article <69mVj.61050$%15.30975@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:
>In article <g04hdn$8a2$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>James Nicoll <jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>
>>In article <1jw7tzgrtvfrc.9t5wo5dh14i1$.dlg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>Alexey Romanov <alexey_r@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>On 1 May 2008 12:33:24 -0400, James Nicoll wrote:
>>>
>>>> Title Author Publication
>>>> Date
>>>
>>>> KITTY TAKES A HOLIDAY Vaughn, Carrie
>>>>
>>>> One of Kitty's friends has to deal with an unwanted life-style
>>>> change while another is forced to deal with the startling revelation
>>>> that killing helpless people is illegal in several jurisdictions in
USA [1].
>>>>
>>>> I love the Kitty novels but her friend****p with a couple of the
>>>> sup****ting characters is as odd as Barak Obama having a Grand Wizard
of
>>>> the Klu Klux Klan as a close personal friend. I'm all for having a
wide
>>>> variety of friends but I draw the line at people whose lifestyle
seems to
>>>> depend on shooting people like me.
>>>>
>>>> 1: Unless you're a cop and the person being shot is black, in which
case
>>>> it's still OK.
>>>
>>>They aren't shooting "people like Kitty" (i.e. werewolves, vampires,
etc.)
>>>in general, only the rogue ones. And WVEs kill rogues as well.
>>
>> Yeah, and I'm sure if we asked the KKK would have said they
>>only went after rogue Negroes, Jews and Catholics. There's no reason
>>to think that properly-briefed cops couldn't deal with the various
>>spookies that break the law and less reason for a werewolf to hang
>>out with people who seem to have made hunting werewolves a central
>>part of their lives.
>
>And Buffy would never fall for Angel, and it sure didn't make sense
>that Romeo & Juliet would fall in love..
>
>Contra-logical love matches are a staple of fiction
>
Neither having a mass murdering bigot fall for a self-hating
example of the class the murder kills nor having Romeo, established as
the kind of boy who falls passionately in love with whatever woman
is in his field of view is all that contra-logical.
Buffy and Spike was pretty stupid.
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