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Old 06-24-2009, 01:32 PM   #2
Rocket Man
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Default Re: tHEhERETIC's Inspired Post And Choirs

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Originally Posted by JCD View Post
As a general concept this may seem basic, but to understand that this is so intrinsic to the character that they don't see any other way naturally is sort of an epiphany to me.

It is a pretty cool realization, isn't it? The analogy that came to me initially was that lying for a Seraph was as unthinkable as incest for a human. Like you, that put me on a whole new appreciation of the psychology.

In some ways, I think Mercurians could watch soap operas, but in the way that a history buff would watch a World War II film: a mixed amount of curiosity, amusement and (of course) disdain that they could get so much so wrong.
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