Forum / What Ever Happened to Baby Susan?

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  Ramon Collins

  Sep 13, 10:33pm

  I haven't seen Susan Tepper post on the Forum recently. Susan was always a lighthouse in the sodden fog of online fiction. An excellent Micro & Flash writer, I found her Forum observations enlightening and entertaining.

  Anyone know?

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  Susan Gibb

  Sep 14, 02:11am

  Hi Ramon, check back on this forum about 15 days ago to a posting. We'll miss her here very much.

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  Tina Barry

  Sep 15, 11:52pm

  Speaking of the missing, does anyone know what happened to Jack Swenson?

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  Susan Gibb

  Sep 16, 04:36pm

  Oh goodness, yes, I miss Jack muchly!

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  Ramon Collins

  Sep 16, 08:21pm

  Thanks, Susan; I found the post (pg 3, thread 4).

  I referred to, in an earlier Forum thread, a private conversation with the legendary Prof. Giovanni Costigan concerning tribal inclination in the human mind (nowhere is it move evident than the 'Net).

  The good Prof. went on to say: "The tendency in a tribal setting is to exclude, not include. Therefore, through inbreeding, the tribe gets weaker."

  We see this today in "e-zines", writers' workshops and writers' vanity sites such as Fictionaut -- which might well be renamed "Platitudenaut".

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  Joani Reese

  Sep 16, 10:49pm

  Ha! Ramon, tell us how you really feel : ), but you do have a point there...

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  Ramon Collins

  Sep 17, 12:47am

  Joani: I honestly feel. "The tendency in a tribal setting is to exclude, not include. Therefore, through inbreeding, the tribe gets weaker."

  My biggest point is on the top of my head. :op

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  Matt Potter

  Sep 17, 07:41am

  which might well be renamed "Platitudenaut" ... very funny and to the point, yes and made me smile

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  Darryl Price

  Sep 19, 02:36pm

  Yeah,actually Ramon,that is incredibly funny or sad and true and sharp,but your posting it on here begins the process of deepening and widening that has to occur for it to continue in the first place.I mean a lot of animals come to the watering hole, some barely making it in the first place,others out of habit maybe they don't even understand..but there are a few things we all get--humor,music,cave paintings on the wall..Platitudenaut is hilarious, and maybe that's what's needed--a little laughing at ourselves. This writing business is taken so seriously by everybody,including me I'm sorry to say(I should know better) that it's more cutthroat than communal sharing of any kind.As for Susan, she's a friend, I see no reason why she should have felt chased away for being herself. Her contributions were monumental. It's a great loss. I'm with Matt though in saying thank you for the smile. Much needed and much appreciated, Sir!

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  MichaelDickes

  Sep 21, 10:23pm

  re: "The good Prof. went on to say: "The tendency in a tribal setting is to exclude, not include. Therefore, through inbreeding, the tribe gets weaker."

  I brought this concept up about a year ago and from what I can see it has happened. Good to see lots of new names, though.

  Heading out to the KGB in NY to catch some writers read...fellow f'nauters included...but first let me play you a tune on my banjo...

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  Ramon Collins

  Sep 24, 12:16am

  Price, Potter & Dickes (that sounds like a sleazy law firm):

  Thanks -- I really appreciate you comments. I've read your work and am happy to recommend you as Bone-fide Writer Fellers.

  When I was a boy, I had the privilege of working with the great Nard Jones, author and editor. Not as a writer, but as an art director for his newspaper magazine.

  Over coffee one afternoon, I asked him, "Why to writers go for each others' throats?"

  Nard replied, with a sly smile; "It's the nature of the craft."

  Apparently, as Hank Williams Jr. sings, "It's a Family Tradition".

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