From: whippy@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Whiplash)
Subject: Just a long note *&)
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:24:14 GMT

	Thanks for the follow ups to my question before. Very nice of people to
explain *&) I always think it is a good idea to make a posting to a group when
you first start to read it, otherwise you just keep putting it off so here
goes with some waffle from me *&)

	I would like to say how impressed I am that the subject of this fan
group actually takes the time to answer the queries on here.  It suggests to
me that you are (Terry that is *&) a fairly nice & down to earth kinda guy
which is good.  I had heard otherwise you see, but of course didnt believe it
at all *&).

	Not that I am a particularly adoring fan, mind, (I wonder, do you get
many adoring-fan-type letters to your posting address as a result of having it
displayed on here Terry?? I know I would probably have written to it myself if
only I could have thought of something to say that didnt smack of
adoring-fanishness) neway, like I said, I'm not a huge fan in that a) I'm only
slightly overweight for my height and b) I haven't read the complete  works of
the aforesaid superstar (which I imagine is a fairly stringent prerequisite
for posting anything half intelligable to this news group.)

	There is, however, a reason for this lack of devotion I assure you!
You see if I read all the books in a series, the author has a nasty habit of
going and dying on me, leaving me and countless other adoring fans (although
you tend not to think of that do you? I know I don't.  You see the book as a
personal communication between yourself and the author which, if you think
about it, must get pretty tiresome for the author when all these people he
doesnt know start thinking they know him) in the lurch so to speak.

	So now, neway, as a matter of policy I always stay a couple of books
behind in the series where the author isnt already dead.  It keeps me in a
supply of new books and I imagine it makes the author fairly happy too.  Poor
Issac Asimov, I nearly wrote to his wife to apologise.  It wasnt really my
fault though - someone bought me the last foundation book for a present and I
couldnt just not read it could I!

	Well I guess there isnt really much of a point to this posting, in
fact rather a lack of point and rather too much padding,  but never mind you
can set up a kill file on me now *&).  There are, however, one or two
intrusive and impertinent questions I would like to ask the great guy himself
and this place is ideal because if they are infact too impertinent and
intrusive he can completely ignore me *&)

	1) Do you get many adoring fan/how do i become a writer letters?
	   Or in these enlightened days do people avoid such embaressments?

	2) Do you find it amusing/sad/completely inconsequential/vaguely
	   irksome when people adopt names from your books as 
	   nicknames/pseuds (some of my friends do (hi Rince *&) but I, of
	   course, am much more original in my choice of "whippy", the origins
	   of which allude you for the present *&) 

	3) Have you any connections with Coventry whatsoever?
	   (Just a rumour here - as there are probably many others around the
	   world, people say you strolled round Cathedral Lanes last book
	   signing as though you knew where you were going, which is quite
	   unusual for even the residents of Coventry)

	4) Where did you get that hat!! *&)

	5) Do you wear black leather underwear as well or do you get it from
	   Marks & Spencers like us mere mortals?

There you go.  Told you they were impertinent *&)
			
				~Whippy Chicken

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