Re: Has anyone else got this problem?
Posted by: Anonymous User (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: July 03, 2003 02:19PM
Dear Kaz
Sarah has given me permission to be scatty due to extreme overwork, so I'm sorry if I repeat anything I've said to you before; I get confused as Dante signs herself 'caz' elsewhere and it's more than I can take in my enfeebled state.
JWHT Crustacean was devised as a result of indignance regarding 'The Two Towers' film, which wasn't even about the right two towers (don't get me started), being sick to death of Chris Tolkien's manner of presenting his father's 'laundry lists', and having read a book by that nice Mr Fforde. This led to an unprecedented (for me) piece of performance artistry in which I temporarily adopted the persona of Chris Crustacean at a Leeds meet of those enamoured both of Mr Fforde, and, well noodles.
Sarah then went on to use a variety of my characters (and her own) in 'The Bodyswappers', which I enjoyed but which also left me exasperated. In the end I had to have a go myself, and ultimately found that Chris C was too fixed in the Bodyswappers to serve the purpose for which he had been created; this led to the creation of William C.
Bodyswappers has been part rescued from old Fforum threads by Sarah at my suggestion, and if you (or anyone else) want a copy of JWHT Crustacean's opening appearance, e-mail me or drop a note in 'About the Nextarillion', created by Simon, but being used by me as the official answering point for all things crabby.
I'll answer now as William C
In poetry 'that should not be';
In Muddle Earth to take a leak you
Must go for a 'Call of Cthulhu'.
All will be revealed in N4+