From:	Joshua James Harrison <harrij4@***.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Dual-nature question (ears)
Date:	Tue, 22 Mar 1994 23:30:30 -0500

[Extrapolations of stuff deleted for brevity's sake]

I see what you're getting at, but I don't think it is quite as extreme as you
trake it... for ART art... that is, sculpture and painting and so forth, there
should certainly be an astral presence for it...

But in terms of the shakier stuff (the tech stuff, primarilly) you're getting
into some strange territory... background countand astral presence is
developed in an inanimate object when extended emotional and 'hands on' work
is put into it.

Going back to the example of Mozart's Requiem, he spent a lot of time and
poured a lot of his energy into that piece (it was his last, I believe), and
as a result it has a very strong astral presence... basically, the more
intense the emotion, and the longer that emotion is associated with an object,
the stronger an astral presence it will have. Cyberware has an astral
presence, it's just that that presence is 'dead' - it doesn't have the life
and emotion that a living being does, and as a result, is also not really
solid on the astral plane.

But of course, the extreme to which you want to take this depends entirely on
your own style of play. This is purely my own ideas and style.



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