At 08:26 PM 2/26/03 -0800, Phoenix wrote:

>>Wonderful attitude for a monarch.  Some democratically elected leaders
>>could do well by adopting such an attitude!
>>
>Unfortunately his son, Edward VIII, didn't pick it up from him. He said of
>Edward "That boy's going to ruin himself within a year after I'm
gone" - and
>he was pretty close to right. George VI, the younger son, was more diffident
>and considered himself to be just an average man, not suited to the job fate
>had thrust on him. Did a damned fine job for a man "unsuited"
to the post,
>I'd say

And in a very trying and dangerous period of history, too.

>>Gee, I'd like to be rich and obscure.  Well, I got it half-right, as I'm
>>pretty doggone obscure.
>>
>I don't even want to be all that rich. I just want to make enough from my
>writing that I don't have to commute to work every day.

That'd work.

>>I don't mind being on-stage -- but that's with a script and behind a
>>>character.
>>
>>Heh!
>>
>I hate it. I've been on stage - my mother's dream was to be on stage so she
>pushed all of us into it one way or another. 

Oh, dear.  That's no fun to be on the receiving end.

>Not my thing at all. I have no
>desire to be anyone else, and no desire to be in front of a mass of other
>people, and no desire to have to fuss with costumes, make-up, remembering
>lines, etc etc etc. Headache, horrors, tension, stress. Not for me. I do

I'd forget the lines.  Heh!  No, not my thing, either.

>like being invisible and making things work, though, and seeing how people
>enjoyed it never knowing who'd done it. That gives me a thrill

Yeah -- painting scenery and such.  Not costumes, though.  I hate sewing.

>>The only way I get attention entering a room is if I come in punning!
>
>>
>>Then I usually quickly go out running!  (for my life . . .)
>>
>
>
>My boss hit me in the head with a packet of frozen fish yesterday in
>retaliation for something like that 




Veloci--behind the scenes is good--raptor
 

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