[Sca-cooks] Overdocumentation

[Huette von Ahrens]

--- 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
 

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Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they 
shall never cease to be amused.


		
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