[LMB] Convert and quotation

[Marna Nightingale]

So, I've made a new convert; the same friend who observed, halfway 
through watching Firefly, that her friends were, by and large, 
apparently less clever and witty than she had been giving them credit 
for. :)

I've had to warn her that reading Lois will probably have the same 
effect on her opinion of me, though it may be balanced out by the fact 
that I probably make more _sense_ when one has read Lois.

ASIDE from the considerable intrinsic pleasure of the material, this is. :)

IS it just me, or have we all reached the stage, not so much of 'quoting 
Bujold' as of absorbing large chunks of the boosk into our brains?

I'm aware of the dangers attendant on making any Lois character, 
especially one's role model, mind :)

But there are lot of bits that stick, simply because they express a 
thing I already feel to be true better than I can express it.

(Most recently, and memorably, and regrettably, 'If THAT's what you 
believe, WHY ARE YOU STANDING IN MY WAY?' It's a long dull story, of 
which the moral is: if somebody's simultaneously a) telling you that 
you're a much meaner and scarier person than they are and therefore have 
to be gentle and supportive with them at all times _and_ b) going out of 
their way to get up your nose, _you're being gamed_. Yeah, obvious in 
retrospect, but I SO owe Lois one for articulating that useful concept ...)

So, is it just me?

Marna.