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Re: Hey, look! I wrote a story!
Posted By: Howard, on host 209.86.38.73
Date: Saturday, January 13, 2001, at 13:48:42
In Reply To: Re: Hey, look! I wrote a story! posted by Travholt on Saturday, January 13, 2001, at 09:03:23:

> > Come to think of it, most of my fiction is written in the first person. That comes natural to a teller-of-tall-tales, but this was just a story. Fiction. I would never try to pick up a beautiful woman on a plane. My wife would kill me. But the sleezy character, I was writing about would. Did you notice how smoothly she took him in and shot him down? The woman was the hero in this one.
> > Howard
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> What I don't understand about people like that guy is that they'd rather lie about who and what they are just to "score", rather than be honest and maybe have a chance to spend a lifetime with that beautiful woman.
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> No matter how little you think of yourself, you'd only make it worse by lying and trying to pretend you're someone else -- because you'd then make *others* think little of you too.
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> Trav"but then again, that's the moral of the story, isn't it?"holt

That's my point, exactly.
H