Lois McMaster Bujold
Multiple personality disorder is an old, and perhaps somewhat factitious, idea. The more recent notions about dissociative disorders generally seem to rest on somewhat more solid foundations. The rest was creative insight; putting myself in Mark's skin and thinking it through, which is what a writer does when creating any character, more or less convincingly.
I don't know if Mark and Kareen will ever marry; they seem to be getting along fine with a galactic-style partnership. If they did, they might well have a choice of which legal codes to marry under, which could matter. If they ever decide to have children, that could change, but probably won't until that point.
Ta, L.
Multiple personality disorder is an old, and perhaps somewhat factitious, idea. The more recent notions about dissociative disorders generally seem to rest on somewhat more solid foundations. The rest was creative insight; putting myself in Mark's skin and thinking it through, which is what a writer does when creating any character, more or less convincingly.
I don't know if Mark and Kareen will ever marry; they seem to be getting along fine with a galactic-style partnership. If they did, they might well have a choice of which legal codes to marry under, which could matter. If they ever decide to have children, that could change, but probably won't until that point.
Ta, L.
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Laer Carroll
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
I am working on three books, #s 11, 12, & 13. This is usual for me; when energy/enthusiasm on one flags I've usually got one of the others to fall back on. Failing that I reread a favorite book, often one by this writer named Bujold, which always rejuvenates me. I'm finding elements of Lodi seeping into one of them. Does that sometimes happen to you (say of Heyer or Sayers) ?
Marie
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Any chance your wonderful quote about honor / reputation was inspired by W.C. Fields? "It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to"? I was at a diner in New Hampshire recently that had a number of pithy quotes, and when I read that one, your quote immediately came to mind.
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