[Ron]
I would say that they are absolutely correct. I have to say that MoQ
world is fun, when cartoon characters exist in every way just as much
as us who can't have a good time?
[Arlo]
You're still making a distinction between "cartoon characters" and
"us", suggesting a "real" and "fictional" divide. Perhaps you can
clarify the difference for me by explaining how the "Ron" I know here
is "real" but the "Aenea" who exists in Warcraft is "a cartoon
character" ("not real"?)?
You are reading me as reducing both to a fictional (and hence trivial
or frivolous) level. I'm suggesting the reverse, that both are
elevated to "real" (and hence both have meaningful, important value).
[Ron]
why do you get so upset with the character of Platt? or, ..is that
merely a role you play?
[Arlo]
No more and no less a role that any of the multiplicity of roles in
which I am always awash. But, if you're asking whether or not
"intolerance of charlatans" is a thread of continuity in value
running throughout all (or most) of the personae that inhabit this
corporeal host, then the answer is "yes".
By the way, Ron, may I pass along a book suggestion Ant had given me
a while back? Read, "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists" by Robert
Tressell. (The full text is available online via Project Gutenberg if
you have trouble getting a hardcopy:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3608) Therein you will meet a
character so "like Platt" you will think that the character of
"Platt" here is "really" the fictitious creation of a Tressellian scholar.
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