Subject: Re: No, *I* am God of this NG! (was Re: TAN: Nervous posts)
From: joeshaw@oh.krunk.org (Joe Shaw)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan
Organization: KRUNK.ORG

  Tucking his harp under his arm, Asmodean drifted away from Mat and
Aviendha.  He enjoyed playing, but not for a pair who did not listen,
much less appreciate.  He was not sure what had happened that morning,
and not sure he wanted to be sure.  Too many Aiel had expressed
surprise at seeing him, had claimed they had seen him dead; he did not
want details.  There was a long gash down the wall in front of him.
He knew what made that sharp edge, that surface as slick as ice,
smoother than any hand could have polished in a hundred years.
  Idly--but with a shiver, too--he wondered whether being reborn in
this fashion made him a new man.  He did not think so.  Immortality
was gone.  That was a gifgt of the Great Lord; he used that name in
his head, whatever al'Thor demanded on his tongue.  That was proof
enough that he was himself.  Immortality gone--he knew it must be
immagination, yet sometimes he thought he could feel time dragging at
him, pulling him toward a grave he had never thought to meet--and
drawing the little of _saidin_ he could was like drinking sewage.
He was hardly sorry Lanfear was dead.  Rahvin either, but Lanfear
especially, for what she had done to him.  He would laugh when each
of the others died, too, and most for the last.  It was not that he
had been reborn as a new man at all, but he would cling to that tuft
of grass on the cliff's brink as long as he could.  The roots would
give way eventually, the long fall would come, but until then he was
still alive.
  He pulled open a small door, intending to find his way to
rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan.  There should be some decent posts.
One step, and he stopped,the blood draining from his face.  "You?  No!"
The word still hung in the air when mkozlows@guy.ssc.wisc.edu (Mike
Kozlowski) wrote in <7n2qn0$eb6$1@news.doit.wisc.edu>:

> And since we're on the topic, a quick note to all of you using cutesy
> attribution lines:  They're funny once, tops, and from then on are grating
> at best.  That which does not contribute to one's post should be
> simplified so that it does not detract; just as one refrains from using
> 10-line ASCII art-laden signatures, one ought to refrain from using
> obtrusive attribution lines. 

I agree.

- Joe