Annie wrote:
In a message dated 3/6/01 7:41:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, N.Faulkner@tesco.net writes:
<< I merely think you are mistaken in thinking that your chosen mode of engagement is that adopted by most fans most of the time and hence represents a normative mode against which all others should be compared. >>
I humbly beg your pardon, Neil. Obviously my knowledge and direct experience with a dozen or more fandoms spread out over two decades or more doesn't entitle me to make any observations about what fans generally are like, what they like, what they like to discuss, what they like to do, or just about anything else.
Curses, caught again. It's true! The reason I dipped my eight-year old toe into the deep waters of B7 fandom twenty years ago wasn't so that I could let loose my Junior Poststructuralist Analysis to join the choral harmony that is fandom's discursive domain. It was because I thought Vila was funny.
Una