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By her superiors, Dr. Silvia Vention was often called brilliant.Her colleagues mostly found her unapproachable and intimidating.
And her interns usually referred to her as ‘bat-shit insane”.
- From Do Androids Dream of Electric Genius? A Biography of Dr. Silvia Vention, Revered Robotics Engineer.
“I don’t care what anybody says; that woman was evil, selfish and vindictive. She was the core of that rotten apple of a company.”
- Rachel Tummley
“Not very many of those interns whom she was particularly hard on realize how much they owe their subsequent careers to her. They think that because they got past working for her, they beat her somehow. The truth is, she knew that if someone could put up with her, she knew that that was a person to keep in the company.”
- Dr. Robert Lee
“You know, I’ll always wonder if somebody pushed her.”
- Dr. Bethany Frost
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Oh wow. That is very revealing. My image of Silvia at home is now informed by her at work persona and... sleep deprived appearance. She is now much more intense in my mind. Her work with Seth at the home makes a lot more sense now.
That and the plot is thickening. ("Do Androids Dream of Electric Genius?" ha ha ha ha. Isn't it fun to create false titles?) Cool.
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I hoped it would be. Silvia is such an important character, and I realized that the readers (you and occasionally Basia) know next to nothing about her, and I haven’t quite figured out the right way to reveal it in the story yet.
I originally wanted the ‘artist comments’ to be a small story about an intern who thought it would be a good idea to bring her a cup of coffee unasked.
Thickening plots is harder than I thought it would be. (Oh, I hoped you would get that. It is fun, quite fun.) Thanks!
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ocassionally Basia? 
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Oh, Basia, I'm sorry...please forgive me?
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Hmm... we will have to find you more readers.
That would have been cool. You should consider that as a mini-story anyway. The excerpts and refferences are really a good way to do it though. Like news reports in movies. Quite frankly this picture and the description got me more excited about the overall story. Which is a good thing.
Timing the thickening is, I'll bet you come up with the ideas pretty easily. Welcome!
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Now you're going to get me all paranoid.
Great! I hoped it would. I liked coming up with the comments and who would say them and why. It might be good to mention that these quotations were 'taken' long after the story is over.
Timing doesn't like me, I believe...
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Ooh, we don't want that. I will wait to try to tout your story until you are more... eager.
I figured it must be, considering the title of the book. This indicates that the story will not publicly solve the mystery of her death. Interesting. Some people would not like that, but I think it indicates that there will be depth to the story even at the end.
You understand conversational timing, so what you should do is, while the conversational wheel is rolling, keep a bigger, slower whell rolling under the serface. Since this story jumps about you don't have to start or stop at any predetermined poiont, so your logic can be circular and still work. The wheel metaphor can be replaced by a train, a waterfall with colored lights, a song, or an assembly line that produces care packages.
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Oh, lovely. Whenever that happens.
Once again you seem to know more about this story than I do.
That's a good metaphor. Did you come up with the others before you decided on the wheel?
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Ha ha. I am a notorious analyzer. I think some of these things are there in your head, and that you would come upon them when you got to them. I find that this happens a lot when I write as well.
I came up with the wheel first since it followed the verb "roll" very naturally. The others came to me when I realized that if the circular part of the metaphor would stop being accurate very quickly.
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We'll see.
"Roll" is a nice word. The circle works as far as I can tell, but I haven't picked it apart as much as I'm sure you have.
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Oh, will we?
"Roll" is a very nice word. Once I was at a busstop with no money and he gave me some. "Wicket" and "Dilectable" never did anything like that for me, and I wash their cars whenever I am washing mine. (?)
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We might.
"Roll" ad I talk in English class, but I don't know him all tht well. "Wicket" borrowed a book from me and has yet to give it back, and "Delectable" is totally cheating on "Honor" with "Tacky"
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On a completely different note, did you happen to glance at the story I sent you?
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....I keep meaning to...I actually did a while ago. I didn't read the whole thing, but I do remember something about a little girl and her dad telling her stories. It felt very much like a story one might find in a school literature book.
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With "Tacky?" No! Oh my heavens. I heard that "Cauterize" has been ruffling "Deciduous's" feathers behind the bleechers and "Gleaning's" back... but you expect that sort of behaviour from a Frenchman.
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