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Originally Posted by Joebill
They better, I have an eraser...
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Not after they hold you down and take it away from you...
I attended a reading some time back by Gahan Wilson. He's a good writer as well as a brilliant cartoonist. He read a piece in which the author of a "Fu Manchu" like series decides to kill off his long-time protagonist and replace him with a new here, maybe Hungarian like he is. He confidently expects his new hero to handily defeat the villain and end the series. It doesn't work out that way. What he
does do is remove the only obstacle that was presenting his villain from escaping from the series and affecting the real world.
(IIRC, in the Last Fu Manchu novel, Nayland Smith decides he's just delaying the inevitable. Fu Manchu is too smart, too powerful, and too rich. Sooner or later, he
will succeed in taking over the world. But once he has, he'll probably do a decent job of running it, and certainly a better job that those he displaced.)
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Dennis