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Re: Eulogy for Axel Bandit

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From: Jennifer Geard
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 05:36
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  > Most authenticists cut the kid in a ratty t-tunic and jeans
  > some slack, as long as the kid seems to be playing their game. 

Yup.  But see below...

  > It's the people who spend a lot of time and effort to make something 
  > non-authentic that burns the authenticists up and evoke the most
  > unpleasant response. 

In my experience it's the people who put others down for lack of authenticity 
about something that is actually documentable period practice who evoke the 
*snidest* response.  Especially when they do it to newcomers who take their 
word on it and perpetuate the myths.

Pagan le Chaunster
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Jennifer Geard                         bloodthorn@sloth.equinox.gen.nz
Christchurch, New Zealand
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