<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 1, 2014, at 5:11 PM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(11, 83, 148); ">But that's one of the points of my book - let's make everyone perfect and see what happens. bill<br></div></div></blockquote><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(11, 83, 148); "><br></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>Ah, well if that's the premise, then you're justified in having perfect people. Maybe you could even name one of them Mary or Marty Sue as a wink to the reader. If you like those kinds of internal jokes. :)</div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On Feb 1, 2014, at 5:11 PM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Optima; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(11, 83, 148); ">But that's one of the points of my book - let's make everyone perfect and see what happens. bill<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra" style="font-family: Optima; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Tara Maya<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tara@taramayastales.com" target="_blank">tara@taramayastales.com</a>></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; "><div>You might want to consider if you are creating a race of Mary Sues.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.springhole.net/writing/marysuerace.htm" target="_blank">http://www.springhole.net/writing/marysuerace.htm</a></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><br><div><div>Tara Maya</div><div><a href="http://taramayastales.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Blog</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/taramayastales" target="_blank">Twitter</a> | <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Unfinished-Song-Epic-Fantasy/310271375658211?ref=hl" target="_blank">Facebook</a> | <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tara-Maya/e/B004HAI038/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1349796143&sr=8-2-ent" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2951879.Tara_Maya" target="_blank">Goodreads</a></div><div><br></div><br></div></font></span><div class="im"><br><div><div>On Dec 31, 2013, at 11:44 AM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: Optima; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; ">Keep in mind that all humans have the same genes except for outward appearance. All 'evil' types are long gone. There is a movement towards reducing the population to two people, like Eden because of a massive guilt complex. It is felt that humans have spoiled the planet (in fact cleanup is still underway with billions of robots in the oceans etc. cleaning up chemicals). So they want to redesign man so that this will never happen again. They are so fervent that it is almost like a religion.<br><br></div><span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; ">All work towards this goal. In their past when someone wasn't 'with the program' their genes were cast out of the mix. In fact, including a person's genes in the mix is the ultimate reward, though now all are the same.</span></blockquote></div><br></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat" target="_blank">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br></div><span style="font-family: Optima; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; "></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></div><br></body></html>