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From: barb@oliven.UUCP (Barbara Jernigan)
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Subject: Re: AMAZING STORIES 11/3: The Mission
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Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 15:23:49 EST
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> 
> The point of all this is that life's a bitch (as they say) and sometimes there
> will be situations that can't have happy endings.  You can't spend all the
> money in your bank account and have more magically appear.  You can't keep
> dumping toxic waste and in your backyard and then wish it away. YOU CAN'T LAND
> A BOMBER ON WISHES!!!  Godwin realized this and wrote a classic short story;
> Spielberg either doesn't realize this or (more likely)realizes that the public
> doesn't want to hear the unpleasant truth that sometimes there's no happy
> ending.  So he coddles them, tells them, "There, there, whatever you do, there
> will be some way to fix it up.  Just wish hard enough and everything bad will
> go away."
> 
> Feh!
> 					Evelyn C. Leeper

Yeh, you're right, it probably would have been stronger to have killed
Jonathon -- but I, for one, am glad they didn't.  I *KNOW* life's a bitch --
so does that mean my fantasy has to reflect that?  If I want glooomy endings,
I'll watch the news, thank you -- or perhaps *good* stuff like *King Lear*.  
If I want light entertainment (*LIGHT* entertainment) I'll watch things like 
Amazing stories -- where I expect and *WANT* happy endings. 

That's my two cents --------
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   "What is the function of the artist?" Amanda demanded of the talented
tresspasser.
   "The function of the artist," the Navajo answered, "is to provide what life 
does not."
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   "Logic only gives man what he needs," [the magician] stammered.  "Magic 
gives him what he wants."

                                       --Another Roadside Attraction