Mailing List Archive

Re: Farewell

Scott Swoboda (giganto@arkansas.net)
Mon, 10 May 1999 17:33:03 -0500


Joe Monson wrote:
> 
> At 09:38 -0500 99.5.10, Walter Amos wrote:
> >On Mon, 10 May 1999, Joe Monson wrote:
> >
> [Tokuma/Sue S. thingey and my question as to what happened]
> >>
> >> Well, given how he referred to the incident in a manner that made it seem
> >> like it was public knowledge, I figured someone here would know the story.
> >
> >Well in a general way he was of course referring to Sue's quite
> >disconcerted post to the listr last week in reponse to his news about
> >Tokuma dubbing LoGH, where she was concerned Tokuma might have stolen
> >the translations she sent them and not given her credit.  SHe seemed
> >quite upset, and Lee is probably tired of being the lightning rod in
> >all this because there is no one else in the know about the situation.
> 
> Okay. That makes sense. If it does turn out that Tokuma stole her
> translation she can always take the matter up with them. Rather than get
> all upset before knowing what happened, I would suggest she wait and see
> exactly how everything turns out at the con, and prepare for the matter
> just in case she does have to do something.
> 
To me it sounded like Tokuma was leading Sue along...promising (not in
writing) to give her some of the work translating or script writing. 
Having one's hopes dashed so secretly would certainly lead me to type
with some venom.

Regards,
Scott Swooda