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Old 06-16-2005, 08:03 PM   #437
The Saucepan Man
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The Saucepan Man has been trapped in the Barrow!
The phantom is getting defensive again. I am suspicious of him.

As I have said, phantom, I had no particular reason to suspect you, and my vote was primarily based on self-preservation. But the vigour with which you defended yourself on that day did make me wonder whether we might finally have found a Wolf. It's perfectly proper to point out why you think the accusations being made against you are groundless, but to do so repetitively and at length seemed to me to be strange. As an innocent Villager, I feel that one eventually has to accept either that people have taken one's points on board and dismissed them (rightly or wrongly) or that they are never going to take them on board, and concentrate instead on developing alternative theories. But everyone has a different approach, as I said earlier.

I did feel at the time that the Villagers made a mistake in only giving serious consideration to two Villagers that day (you and me - both innocent), but that was because I knew that I was innocent and had no strong reason to suspect you. However, I can see and understand why it happened that way.

We all feel rather aggrieved when we are wrongly lynched. We think the other Villagers are silly to do so because we know we are innocent and that such evidence as there is pointing at us is circumstantial. But there's no point in taking it too personally. And it seems rather redundant to continue making the arguments now that the game is over. The fact is, whatever the merits of your arguments, a sufficent number of innocent Villagers rejected them to result in your being lynched.
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