On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Matthew Campbell wrote:

Well, the youma-killer seemed to think it was their only option.  He 
must have had some reason to think they couldn't bargain or negotiate 
with her.  It might not be a good reason, but he knew how powerful she 
was.  It seems logical that if he believed anything but an all-out 
attack would work, he would have tried it.

I'm curious as to how, in a month, they determined that she was not
amenable to negotiation.  As far as I can tell from the two stories, they
simply assumed she was not.  There's not a hint that they ever tried and
failed.
 

He might think about what he is doing, and stop, she hopes.

What he's writing is pretty heavily slanted towards his side.  I don't 
see why rereading it would make him any less fervent about his cause.

Well, we're not desperate, either.  I think that's what she hoped, though.

 

But if you're still here, that means he didn't succeed.  There's no
if-then in time travel.

Assuming only one time stream and instantaneous changing of the time
stream.  Time Travel involves a lot of confusing metaphysics :)

You'll scream when I finish my Legion of Super Heroes/SM crossover, 'A
Tale of Two 30th Centuries', which has enough time travel and dimension
hopping to explode anyone's head :)  

John Walter Biles :  MA-History, Ph.D Wannabe at U.Kansas
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New CS Lewis Quote :)
"This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn.  We must play.
but our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest
kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each
other seriously--no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.  And out
charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in
spite of which we love the sinner--no mere tolerance or indulgence which
parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment."
--The Weight of Glory