Marcus G. Daniels wrote at 08/19/2013 02:53 PM:
Hmm. A possible example are mentor/student relationships where the mentor apparently "cares enough" to torture/exploit/haze the talented student, but lets the ordinary student coast through without scrutiny -- a psychological struggle for dominance that is a sort of destabilizing feedback loop...
Precisely! I recently recommended "The Magus" to one of my victims. He bit back by implying to me that he didn't read it. ;-) I saw a copy on his bookshelf... now I'm torturing myself by wondering if he read it or not. Obviously, asking him directly if he read it would clip some of the loops, Yog forbid. -- ⇒⇐ glen e. p. ropella She'll borrow bullets and return em' to your skull
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