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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>>…</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Anders<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] evil laughs<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p>Now, my view is that what makes for a great evil laugh is that it expresses the joyful feeling of power. It should be pure Will to Power made manifest. Yes, a sneaky laugh followed by steepled fingers and "excellent..." is enjoyable, but it is inhibited, not reveling in bending the world to one's will. Great evil laughter is a whole body experience, where every cell is shouting with triumph. This is of course why it is regarded as evil by life-denying philosophies that find pride and hubris evil<span style='color:windowtext'>… Anders<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Such as this?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=simon+bar+sinister+images&biw=930&bih=649&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwiwu9bikd7OAhUBDmMKHalZDvUQ7AkINg#imgrc=KEm9vnc8DH_vtM%3A">https://www.google.com/search?q=simon+bar+sinister+images&biw=930&bih=649&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwiwu9bikd7OAhUBDmMKHalZDvUQ7AkINg#imgrc=KEm9vnc8DH_vtM%3A</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><pre><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>For you Underdog virgins who do not recognize this character, it is Simon bar Sinister, the mad scientist whose ambition is to absolute power. In nearly every episode, he comes up with some device which he struggles to perfect, at which time he utters the trope: …then I, Simon bar Sinister, SHALL RULE THE WORLD!<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>I saw them as a child, but as a young adult I saw for the first time Jimmy Stewart in the 1940s classic It’s a Wonderful Life. The bad guy in that was the voice of bar Sinister. So I finally got the joke all those years later that Simon was a parody of Mr. Potter from Wonderful Life, but with far more modest ambitions: merely to rule Bedford Falls.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Compare the bar Sinister images with Mr. Potter. Any similarities?<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><a href="https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=930&bih=649&q=mr.+potter+it%27s+a+wonderful+life&oq=mr.+potter+&gs_l=img.1.0.0j0i30k1l7j0i5i30k1l2.1545.4421.0.6965.11.10.0.1.1.0.97.746.10.10.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..0.11.747.VY4HZQYjiws#imgrc=I2xIyAjMwgegbM%3A">https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=930&bih=649&q=mr.+potter+it%27s+a+wonderful+life&oq=mr.+potter+&gs_l=img.1.0.0j0i30k1l7j0i5i30k1l2.1545.4421.0.6965.11.10.0.1.1.0.97.746.10.10.0....0...1ac.1.64.img..0.11.747.VY4HZQYjiws#imgrc=I2xIyAjMwgegbM%3A</a><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>In any case, bar Sinister’s evil laugh as he manipulates the weather machine in the graphic above is perhaps the best expression of Anders’ joyful feeling of power.<o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></pre><pre><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></pre></div></body></html>