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On Sun, 27 Oct 2024 15:26:27 -0400, William Hyde wrote:

> In the late 1990s, a Canadian civil servant and his daughter were avid
> players of "Asheron's Call", a game I recall Dorothy mentioning. Through
> the game the daughter met her future husband, a German guy who moved to
> Canada and tried to set up an internet sales site specializing in
> snowboards.  He hated all the options then available, so started his own
> company with cash from his father in law, who got shares.
> 
> Over the past five years the father-in-law, Bruce McKean, has donated
> 200 million dollars to CAMH (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
> Foundation).
> 
> The young man's company turned out to be Shopify.  Of course, he might
> have had the same success regardless of who he married, but CAMH
> wouldn't have gained 200 mil without "Asheron's Call".
> 
> Kevin Lambert grew up in a Quebec town where his main supply of reading
> material came from Costco.  His early reading included  Harry Potter,
> Narenia, and "A series of unfortunate events".
> 
> His novels are non-genre, but he still cites those works as influences,
> and has won a slew of prestigious literary awards in France.  Pity
> Harold Bloom can't be told about this.
> 
> The author is in transition (and doesn't care what pronouns you use,
> hence the above) but still likes the Potter books, though he's not at
> all keen on JKR.  Once published, he says, a book has a life of its own,
> independent of the author's later opinions.
> 

What's RL?

> 
> William Hyde