On Mon, 05 May 1997 08:37:05 -0400 (EDT), Matt Urban wrote:

Fun!  After reading a darkfic from Mako, I needed something with no 
emotional content or complexity to get my mind back on track for the 
excitment of the microeconomics final I'm about to take.  One silly 
little question: why did you have Plum/Lizi explain in the narration that 
she could speak proper English while she doesn't?

Sort of a way of making fun of the two tourists in the story, by
suggesting that they'd expect the fractured speech. I know that not all
tourists are like that, but some certainly are. (I myself visited China
as a tourist once, though I didn't go anywhere near Jusenkyo.)

 That just gives the 
whole thing a level of complexity that detracts from the general 
mindlessness of the monstrosity.  Also, is the actor a made up character?

Yeah. Your typical Hollywood hunk.

Thanks for writing!

Gary Kleppe
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