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To: Rambi who wrote (35935)	8/21/1999 12:08:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

Benjamin has been trying to hornswoggle me into letting him load one of his games on my computer, it's called Everquest, and it's a MUD, multi-user dungeon, he links to in on the internet, and plays a dungeons&dragons type role-playing game. I've looked at it over his shoulder, it's quite imaginative, one thing that is fascinating is that all the people who are wandering around can be seen if you cross paths with them, but they are all busy doing their own thing, so they just wander by, just like the real world, except they are trolls and elves and knights and skeletons and such. So his character will be busy fighting a bear or running from a ghoul or something like that, and a skeleton or an elf will cross his path and keep walking. But every time he tries to get out of the woods he starts from the computer freezes up. And he wants to use my computer. I won't let him, though, because every time a program is loaded onto a computer, it modifies Windows, and other things, in ways that sometimes are too arcane to notice when trying to put it back like it was. So my computer is supposed to be sacred. His computer needs an exorcist, I think.

To: Rambi who wrote (35935)	8/21/1999 1:07:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Respond to of 71178

Greek olives and Wit beer for breakfast. I love being an adult. eom

To: Rambi who wrote (35935)	8/21/1999 1:25:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I don't know where Annie Dillard's retreat is, but haven't heard of her being up here, so she's more likely downsound, maybe on Whidbey or Bainbridge or Vashon islands. I read her book Pilgram at Tinker Creek for a book club discussion quite a few years ago and was completely unimpressed, so haven't read anything more of hers. (The others in the club, except for the person who recommended the book, were equally unimpressed, and taking off on her arrow image we coined the ditty "I shot Annie Dillard into the air. She came to earth I know not where. Nor do I care." But we were younger and crueler then.