New subject: the limits of parody

14 May 2001

      Alison Page wrote:
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Jenny said -
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B7 has taken on a personal role in your lives, for twenty years or so
Gan
has been a character that you liked, that you felt comfortable with. Now
some bitch is trying to tell you that Gan is a killer and what is worse,
a
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killer of women. This is an attack on a friend.
No it isn't, it's a comment on a fictional character. I personally find
Gan
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rather dull,
Well he sure ain't dull now!
and over the 'past twenty years or so' I have been interested
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to come across your theory from time to time, or variations on it.
Well done.
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Supposing you had said 'here is a completely different take on a familiar
character - and guess what folks, it stands up just as well to scrutiny
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your complacent ideas,
and I can quote the episodes to prove it. It is just
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as valid
It's more valid. It's the truth. Not something you often seem to find on 
Lysator.
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an interpretation as any of you lot who think Gan is nice and safe
and cuddly, and that's how I view Blakes 7, so get used to it.' That
would
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be very interesting, and I for one would have enjoyed that.
Good.
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I'm not making this up you know. This is no self deluding "IMO"
bullshit..
The pattern's there. Everything fits.
But here you seem to be saying 'this is definitely the truth about Gan's
character'
It is.
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and that seems to me to be a meaningless statement.

It isn't.
Where is
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truth held?
In the text.
What does 'truth' mean when we are talking about a work of
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fiction?
In the text.
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These seem to be such glaring problems with your stance
They aren't. But there are some glaring problems in the stance you're
taking.
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that I can't help but feel you are creating a self-parody. Is it just a
joke?
No. This is a joke:
Q. What do you get if you cross a kangeroo with a sheep?
A. A woolly jumper!
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Thus I conclude (and speaking only of myself):
Actually you are trying to speak for me!
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'I am making this up you know.
But I'm not.
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This is self deluding IMO bullshit.
But it isn't.
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Nothing about B7 is real.
Only if you are an IMO fascist.
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This is just a game I play.
Yes, but a game with a message.
Nice talking to you. Write again soon.
Jenny
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