In a message dated 3/6/01 7:47:30 AM Eastern Standard Time, wilsonfisk2@yahoo.com writes:
<< If you (and I mean 'you' generic rather than specific) wrote an essay arguing Bklake and Avon were lovers you'd failt the course becasue you wouldn't be able to provide suifficent textual evidence.
Who cares?!? Most of us have no interest in writing an essay. We aren't taking university courses in Blakes 7, for Pete's sake. We're just fans, enjoying a hobby and a fandom. This kind of insistence on "textual evidence" and scholarly research (based on an old tv show!) and so on is ludicrous. I mean, if some fans want to do it because *they* think it's fun, have at it. But trying to insist that the rest of the fandom should adhere to the same sort of guidelines for "proof" and that they have to make a "case" or they can't discuss anything is just ludicrous.
Annie