VLVL [8] When BV possessed her

Meg Larson mgl at tardis.svsu.edu
Thu Jan 28 20:31:17 CST 1999


Paul:
>I appreciates Meg's question to me and will give it some thought later in
>the evening. Unfortunately I've got to leave. Let me say however
>that those who would be unhappy with the assertion a real man wants
>absolute possession would be quite on target. What if I had put quotes
>around "real man." I half meant it ironically, except that I don't really
>like irony very much.

I sort of thought that, Paul, and used your post to make a point--Frenesi
and DL are not the kind of women that would even consider being possessed by
a man or any other human being (sorry if I sounded bitchy, but that's the
other point.), including daughters/mothers/fathers/husbands.  Brock and Zoyd
and Ralph, Sr and even Takeshi cannot possess these women, in the first and
only place, because it's not an option.

Didn't mean to pick on Paul,
M.






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