BS>Absolutely. The characters in my first novel are so superior and
  >sophisticated, they would never deign to talk to plain little me. But I
  >get the last laugh, because without me they're nothing--quite literally!
I thought it was funny in "Dune" how superintelligent the characters
were there, not from anything they did, but mainly because the author
kept reminding us about it.
Jack Ruttan
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