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Legate of Amon Lanc · 11-21-2008, 10:36 AM

No, really not

Come on...

1. There was a person.
2. This person was vulnerable to a certain kind of disease.
3. This disease is a kind you won't usually find in a medic's handbook.
4. It caused this person, eventually, to move far from this person's home place.
5. That person did not die because of the disease, as far as we know.

Come on. That is quite a LOT of information. And, okay, I could add, for example:

6. We actually don't know anything about the person since it caught this disease.

11-21-2008, 10:36 AM	#11
Legate of Amon Lanc A Voice That Gainsayeth Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In that far land beyond the Sea Posts: 7,431	No, really not Come on... 1. There was a person. 2. This person was vulnerable to a certain kind of disease. 3. This disease is a kind you won't usually find in a medic's handbook. 4. It caused this person, eventually, to move far from this person's home place. 5. That person did not die because of the disease, as far as we know. Come on. That is quite a LOT of information. And, okay, I could add, for example: 6. We actually don't know anything about the person since it caught this disease. __________________ "Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories