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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Five Stories About What Happens After You've Defeated the Big Bad
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:35:39 -0700
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On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 10:11:28 -0400 (EDT), jdnicoll@panix.com (James
Nicoll) wrote:

>Five Stories About What Happens After You've Defeated the Big Bad
>
>Mission accomplished! Quest completed! Now what...?
>
>https://reactormag.com/five-stories-about-what-happens-after-youve-defea=
ted-the-big-bad/

=46WIW, I point out that the animated film /Megamind/ is about the
opposite problem: what does a villain do when he has won?
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"