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Tirinor · 12-17-2002, 02:42 PM

What mothers do is create an atmosphere of domesticity. And heroes that abandon domesticity are not as admirable because domesticity is admirable. So they would be leaving something admirable to do something admirable. No mothers - make a hero's quest linear and progressive. Mothers - make a hero's quest circularish.

The issue seems to be more about what mothers would do to an adventure story than what the absence of mothers would do.

12-17-2002, 02:42 PM	#32
Tirinor Haunting Spirit Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Alabama, U.S.A. Posts: 90	What mothers do is create an atmosphere of domesticity. And heroes that abandon domesticity are not as admirable because domesticity is admirable. So they would be leaving something admirable to do something admirable. No mothers - make a hero's quest linear and progressive. Mothers - make a hero's quest circularish. The issue seems to be more about what mothers would do to an adventure story than what the absence of mothers would do. __________________ War Eagle.