From: ps70awg@rs4.tcs.tulane.edu (Mel Rupinski)
Newsgroups: alt.ql.creative
Subject: Roundtable Story #6 notes
Date: 10 Feb 1994 04:26:47 GMT
Organization: Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Message-Id: <2jcd27$t14@news.cs.tulane.edu>

I guess the first thing that I should mention here is why this story uses the 
same leap-in as the last one (Marsh's).  Well, as it turns out whoever was 
supposed to be before me dropped out of the roundtable at the last second, 
which left me an insufficient amount of time to the the proper research to 
do Marsh's leap-out justice (I am very unknowledgeable about that era of 
history, unfortunately).  So it was suggested that I either make up my own 
leap-in, or use the previous one.  I took the latter option in order to keep 
some semblance of integrity to the Roundtable.  And living in New Orleans, 
it was relatively easy to describe Mardi Gras.  Anyhow, the net result is a 
sort of "temporal loop" -- the next story will use the leap-out from my 
story, and the one after that will pick up from Marsh's story.  My apologies 
for the confusion.

As for substance, I drew heavily on personal experience to write this story 
(Mardi Gras is one of my favorite events!), but none of the events actually 
happened.  As for the characters, they were also based on friends of mine, 
but there names, and the names of some of the places have been changed 
to protect the guilty.  The one thing I did find a little difficult, however, 
was trying to translate my impression of Mardi Gras into one Sam might 
have.  I hope it works.

Anyhow, I hope you enjoy the story.

Any and all comments are welcome.

-mtr
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