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To: Rick Julian who wrote (31427)	2/21/1999 12:00:00 PM
From: Tom_	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I think folks can best arrive at some sort of truth... about an issue by addressing the issue itself. The particulars of the people addressing it are both irrelevant and a distraction. Claptrap is claptrap, reasoned discourse is reasoned discourse, whether from a 10 year old sage or a 90 year old naif. You don't need to defend your positions if you don't wish to. I felt they were essentially misguided and stated why. Best wishes, Tom

To: Rick Julian who wrote (31427)	2/21/1999 7:11:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 108807

Still interested, at least hypothetically, in the notion that creative drive dims with age. I suppose the only solution would be to look at the lives of the great artists, which I haven't done in sufficient degree to reach any conclusion. I do recall that my favorite play of Shakespeare's, The Tempest, was the last one he wrote. What happens to anything that gets lit? Given adequate fuel and oxygen, it burns indefinitely. And a bed of hot coals does a better barbecue than a bonfire. Which proves nothing, except perhaps the silliness of overextending an analogy. I remain unconvinced, though, possibly because I would like to believe that I will still be able to write effectively when I finally have the time to write what I want. Experimentation is good, but not always: some time back I spent a long time writing a novel, experimental in some ways. Actually managed to get a decent agent to take it on, but in the process of making the changes the agent wanted - all of which would have improved it - I realized that I no longer liked it, that the experiment, in my own judgement, had failed. I tossed it. If I ever do another, it will certainly be entirely different.