Actually "Triumphant" was my first, but TOA will always be the magical book, even though Wyrd won't sell it to me in a first with a DJ for a hundred bucks or so.

I would rather read a book about coffee tables which turns into a coffee table than read anything by, or about, Kathey Lee.

Having posted for the first time, I seem to recall, on or near my 50th birthday, I do lament those younger days, even though I still seem to have the mental outlook of a teenager. Also, I didn't do weight training then, and am actually much stronger, and nearly as quick, now.

I'll admit I've reached that damnable age when I come home and put on sweat pants instead of normal clothing, but when I think of JUNGLE HEAT I think of La, and Nemone (who would have found a kindred mental spirit in Tawny). I would never use a bicycle to travel any paltry distance of a mile, when I could hand-walk. Also, I was a virgin throughout high school. I don't know how that happened.

My own question is, "How did Seven of Nine ever let herself join up with Predator Seven?" This is incomprehensible to me, although admittedly most things are. I'm not worried about caucasion professors. They can't travel far from libraries and wierd book vendors, even when saturated with the hard stuff in their systems.

You will certainly experience the savagery of the hard-headed barbarian at some point, however briefly. This "two-day vacation" you are taking sounds suspiciously like wanton "run-away, run-away" terror, at least in my view.

I haven't dealt much with racial inequities, except in my job, but as a male, I have certainly experienced some sexual inequities. Whew.

I certainly am glad to be around in 1997, however, with computers, instant chats on AOL with J the V, who isn't presently around to defend herself from Tawny's attacks on her Bara-killing abilities; and of course ERBlist, with its far-flung friends, however inadequate some of them are in their killing capabilities south of the Ohio River.

Since you're going to be absent for "48 hours", I may have to permit you to live, however ignominously, to see the New Year in.

Tavane will be laughing at you, though. She doesn't have much fun, and complains that she has to do all my typing, so it should be a treat for her.

I'm still not sure I will tackle all the topics Tangor mentioned, having pretty much exhausted them illegally on innumerable previous occasions. Moreover, "terse", "brief", "short", and other such words are not easily understood in Toledo, Ohio, when it comes to posting.

Tarak thanks the Predator for his post, and kicks back in his sweat(y) pants, picking up "Return" once more to read about the one who set the unreachable standard for all barbarians, predators, and other heroes. (He just killed a lion. Can you imagine?)

Tarak, often amused by his own thoughts, which are clearly as random as they are plentiful.