From: Noah Doyle <nvdoyle@m...>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:26:46 -0500
Subject: [OT] SG Humor & Literary stuff
> Allan writes: > XXX Of course I read Hemingway. All of my ESU Volunteer Brigades are past > the first APSW. 40k players read? :) XXX > I preferred F. Scott Fitzgerald, myself. All my NSL troops are destined for a > tragic demise, but with lots of neat imagery in the terrain... Germanic types destined for a tragic demise? Strains of Wagner rise softly in the background... Fitzgerald never did much for me - I couldn't make myself care about the characters (please, kill yourselves, get it over with!). But what they did do, it was in really well described places. Some days, my die rolling and morale results make me think my troops are in a Twain farce. But mostly I accept it with traditional Russian stoicism. Maybe it's War & Peace, instead.