[UA] Re: Your Next NPC

[Rex Monday]

THANK YOU, Bryant! And the title of your post is dead on. Check this out:

"GW: So what, then, would you say drives your market - obviously more than a 
simple interest in history.

WS: True. If the interest was only historical, they would probably stick 
with documents, autographs, icons and the like... I don't know, it would 
certainly be easy to entertain cheap psychoanalysis, and a lot of people 
say, oh right, it's just necrophilia, or what not. I can only tell you the 
kinds of things my clients say when they contact me. Now, these are very 
often men - and many women, I might add - of considerable wealth but not a 
whole lot of cultural visibility, celebrity, not much glamor. So for the 
right price they can have a little osteomomento from the body of Marilyn 
Monroe squirrelled away in the safe, together, maybe, with a slide of 
Winston Churchill's blood, or a slice off the presidential polyp. Some form 
of post-facto access to celebrities they could never have in real life. I 
mean, look how excited people get about an autograph, say an autographed 
picture of Judy Garland. So imagine the excitement if you could buy the hand 
that wrote the autograph!"

Oh, so gruesome. Oh, so proxy-licious.

Wait a second! NPC my round white heiny. This might be my next PC--whatever 
the game, UA or not! This is just...beautiful.

-rex monday


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