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Message: 6288
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 04/10/2007
Subject: Re: JSW as painkiller
Daniel wrote:
>I would say that MM/JSW is even more fundamental to my quality of
> I can say, from my personal (albeit not as dramatic) experience,
> that for people fascinated by JSW the subject may be quite an
> effective remedy for real-life problems. Not a solution, of course,
> but rather an efficient painkiller. Becoming involved (to the point
> of obsession) in a JSW project allows you (me, at least) to
> concentrate my mind so fully on the subject that I keep thinking
> about it all the time and even get irritated when real-life
> concerns disturb my JSW-thinking-processes. It has allowed me on
> various occasions to actually take my mind off unpleasant subjects
> and has given me a lot of much-needed peace of mind.
life than tennis, even though tennis has proved to be more demanding,
addictive and urgent than MM/JSW for much of the last three years.
But as two Marias - one tall, slim and blonde; the other short,
voluptuous and wearing an apron - grapple for pole-position in my
Copious Free Time, the one who wields a rolling-pin has begun to
fight back.
If I were told I had six months to live - right now - my number-one
priority (besides securing my salvation) would be to catch up on all
the MM/JSW games released since 2000 that I haven't played to
completion yet (the last was Willy Comes Home, so I've still got a
long way to go).
If I were on my deathbed, I would certainly want to spend my
incontinent final hours playing MM/JSW. And I'd be mightily
disappointed if I couldn't download MM/JSW into the spiritual
hereafter (just for that, I'll probably be condemned to an eternity
of playing MM/JSW in the H.E. Double Hockey-Sticks' Ironic Punishment
department).
I couldn't live without tennis, but I couldn't die without MM/JSW.
--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/
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