Message no. 1

From:	Lloyd Vance ljvance@*******.edu
Subject:	Marvin the Paranoid Android [was: Insanity through essence
Date:	Thu, 24 Jun 1999 19:42:47 -0700

>Or if you know the reference 'Marvin the Robot' (or something like that, I only
>recall it from a song I used to hear on Dr. Demento). Basically give him a sad,
>morose, slow, depressed reality where he feels all alone and isolated. Like
>a 5 year old child in a small dark closet in a huge empty mansion with no
people
>around for a 'hundred miles'. He's lost touch with being human. He's tetering
>on the edge and knows he's lost, but can't find the light.
>

Marvin was from the Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Great
character. And as a youth, I wanted to be him. (don't ask why, I later went
goth, but it wasn't that much of a stretch after Marvin)
Lloyd Vance
"beating life at life,
and death too late to
truly win
against
you."
--Charles Bukowski