[Sca-cooks] Overdocumentation
Huette von Ahrens
ahrenshav at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 19 23:48:31 PST 2004
--- David Friedman <ddfr at daviddfriedman.com>
wrote:
> Now let me disagree from the other side. Making
> a joke out of
> persona, in any of the versions you describe,
> simply makes it harder
> to make persona work when you do want it to.
>
> The best solution to the problem, in my view,
> is to explicitly drop
> out of persona in order to have the
> conversation. If possible, I
> prefer to take advantage of some symbolic
> dividing line--move to the
> edge of the feast hall, or move outside the
> boundary of our
> encampment. If I am teaching a class on in
> persona story telling and
> want to start in persona as a sample, I can put
> my glasses on, or
> take my turban off, to mark the switch from
> being Cariadoc to being
> David.
>
> In other contexts, you simply have different
> conversations at
> different times. Years ago our group did a
> cooks symposium. The
> classes were out of persona, so we could talk
> about sources and
> stuff. The feast and revel afterwards was in
> persona. This list is
> out of persona too.
But you are one of the rare people who seem to
cope with keeping period effortlessly. I
can handle a banquet, but I find that an entire
day or weekend or war is tiring and trying.
BTW, it was good to see your father advising
Governor Schwarzenegger on economics. That
is a good sign, I thought, for the future.
And I thought he looked quite good for his age.
Huette
=====
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they
shall never cease to be amused.
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