Asterax
Joined: 21 Nov 2002
Posts: 1883
Location: Maine |
Captiv8 wrote:
I never thought C.R.A.Z.Y. was a character at all, and I still don't. Based on personal e-mail exchanges she seemed like a consistently real, if quirky, person to me. This whole thing stinks of huevos rancheros. Let's lock this bad boy down before more confusion ensues.
Does "Huevos rancheros" have a different meaning where you are? After living in Mexico City this fall, I can tell you this is a very tasty dish! |
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MCGF
Joined: 22 Feb 2010
Posts: 368
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Asterax wrote:
Captiv8 wrote:
I never thought C.R.A.Z.Y. was a character at all, and I still don't. Based on personal e-mail exchanges she seemed like a consistently real, if quirky, person to me. This whole thing stinks of huevos rancheros. Let's lock this bad boy down before more confusion ensues.
Does "Huevos rancheros" have a different meaning where you are? After living in Mexico City this fall, I can tell you this is a very tasty dish!
I, for one, would love to stink of huevos rancheros. |
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Sun Jan 16, 2011 3:14 pm |
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Dr Sagacious
Joined: 01 Mar 2009
Posts: 1842
Location: Redford |
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futuristxen wrote:
What are people's thoughts on this sort of thing? I've run into it often on the internet, and my feeling has always been that it's inconsequential. You are ostensibly who my experience makes you, and the experiences that I have with a character are as real as they are with someone who is "real". Everyone on the internet is real, even when they aren't. Maybe especially when they aren't.
Point being that I don't think the writer past a certain point can "retire" a character. What about people who don't see this post, or who died before you got to post it? Or what if people just disregard it? At this point the character as an experience is out of your hands.
There's an egoism to the reveal though that is interesting. The idea that you the author are in control of the audience to the degree that you can pick the story's end in this sort of setting is a special level of arrogance. There's an inate notion of "oh I fooled you", but the person who has been fooled is you because this entire time you thought you were more real than your creation, when in the eyes of the audience there is still no difference.
What's the difference between a Crazy Amy or a Penny Anne Meyer? Just different characters. Neither more real to anyone here than another, y'know.
I'd be interested to know why you bothered with "retiring"?
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Sun Jan 16, 2011 3:23 pm |
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Mr Jenkins
Joined: 13 Dec 2007
Posts: 600
Location: Aotearoa |
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Sun Jan 16, 2011 3:36 pm |
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xGasPricesx
Joined: 23 May 2008
Posts: 1386
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Well this whole revealing and what not seems more than a little silly to me, but I am happy that I won't` even have to come across any of your posts anymore. For awhile there I thought you were just a pathological liar with all those ridiculous stories, but you were an "internet character" huh? Well, alright then. |
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Sun Jan 16, 2011 3:51 pm |
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T-Wrex
p00ny tang
Joined: 30 Jun 2002
Posts: 6175
Location: Detroit, Michigan |
i kinda knew this was a poorly imagined alter ego...
...and it was interesting to see how naive men interacted with her. |
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Sun Jan 16, 2011 4:47 pm |
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Lants
Joined: 07 Aug 2006
Posts: 2207
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long live raoul degroot |
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Sun Jan 16, 2011 5:23 pm |
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Jesse Custer
Joined: 01 Dec 2006
Posts: 1245
Location: London |
C.R.A.Z.Y wrote:
I sold him a bag of used shrooms for 3 dollars, hence the moniker Crazy Amy.
What does the word 'used' mean in this context. I'm confused. |
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Sun Jan 16, 2011 5:34 pm |
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zeem
Joined: 29 Apr 2003
Posts: 3870
Location: elsewhere |
she dug it out of her poop? |
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Sun Jan 16, 2011 5:46 pm |
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JohnSchwan
Joined: 05 Dec 2005
Posts: 667
Location: Baton Rouge, LA/MA |
Oops.
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Sun Jan 16, 2011 5:57 pm |
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FuseONE
Joined: 11 Jul 2002
Posts: 1713
Location: Newark, DE |
anomaly wrote:
i have no clue what you all are talking about
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Sun Jan 16, 2011 6:05 pm |
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Disharmony
Joined: 01 Jun 2003
Posts: 2988
Location: Buried in Minnesota dirt. |
Now that I think about it.....weren't you the one with the breast cancer surgery or some type of malicious illness? Cold hearted snake there CRAZY. |
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Sun Jan 16, 2011 6:16 pm |
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Plum Puddin'
Joined: 26 May 2008
Posts: 1648
Location: Get off my lawn. |
C.R.A.Z.Y wrote:
i'm already working on my next character. i have the life of an ex left wing radical turned conservative right wing republican on my plate, in which i profess a love and kinship for America, blue collar workers everywhere and motorcycle dive bars.
sounds riveting. |
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Sun Jan 16, 2011 7:32 pm |
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Sarcastro
Joined: 27 Sep 2002
Posts: 3268
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C.R.A.Z.Y wrote:
to clear up these misconceptions, i have a third name i go by in my real life.
in any case, crazy amy has to die. and i'm going to kill her off!
on my birthday!
after that she'll be trapped between several hundred pages of paper and ink.
i'm already working on my next character. i have the life of an ex left wing radical turned conservative right wing republican on my plate, in which i profess a love and kinship for America, blue collar workers everywhere and motorcycle dive bars.
by the time i've lived both sides of the coin, and finished writing them both down, it should give me a doozy of a third work.
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Sun Jan 16, 2011 8:13 pm |
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Mr Jenkins
Joined: 13 Dec 2007
Posts: 600
Location: Aotearoa |
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