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I worked in the school cafeteria for a year when I was in High School (during my study hall period) and all I got for that was a hot lunch that I couldn't pay for otherwise. You don't think that opened me up to some ridicule?
I cleaned toliets for minimum wage. That was fairly embaressing.
Maybe I'm just too mercenary, Zero. I'd still take the success.
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Maybe. I'm not trying (at all) to make the case that nobody would accept money or gain. I am just trying to protect the consistency of the conditions that make the comparison meaningful. Honestly, I'd expect about 50% of people to respond that they would take the cash. And for perfectly good reason, I just want the integrity of the comparison to be preserved.
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If the devil appeared out of a puff of smoke, and produced a contract offering success in return for your soul, and somewhere in the small print it said that you had to write Eragon, I wonder how many people would sign.
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The devil. Mmmm. I would assume he would want his usual fee? So now you are saying would I write a book like Eragon, never improve in my writing skills, and go to hell for all eternity?
quote:If the devil appeared out of a puff of smoke, and produced a contract offering success in return for your soul, and somewhere in the small print it said that you had to write Eragon, I wonder how many people would sign.
Well, it depends. Would I have to write the horrible sequels too? I could stand to write one of the pieces of dreck, but FOUR? No... that would be too horrible. I couldn't do it. ROFL
Edit: Ok, I'm being unfair. I only know for a fact that ONE of the sequels is horrible. The others aren't out yet.
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In a word: no, but I expect you knew that already.
The theorectical souls in question (ie. those souls for which I might surrender my own soul as ransom) would have to be someone I love (ie. my wife and children) in order for me to consider such a deal. It's no secret that I am not the second coming, so it should come as no surprise that I'd restrict myself to such personally satisfying deals.
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