At 08:17 PM 2/14/99 -0600, doug_w@mail.geocities.com wrote:

This fic is really amazing. It starts out as a joke, yet has taken several
dramatic turns, resulting in a very good story.

However, I do think that the 'theatre' scenes are beggining to wear thin,
especially in this part. The supposedly cannon characters in the theatre
are begging to act more like the non-theatre charcters.

I disagree about the theater scenes wearing thin. To me, at any rate, I am
becoming more and more intrigued by them. Shinji's desire to create a
perfect world resonates strongly with Dornkirk and Folken from Escaflowne.
	As the series started it was the non-theater parts which brought me
in, but in the last couple of parts (namely 7 and 8 here), I have become
more and more interested in the theater (why, yes I do use the Commonwealth
spelling of the word ^_^ )parts.
	As for the ending of part 8? A flair for the dramatic. The perfect
spot and the perfect way to end it. I wouldn't call it a cliffhanger, but
it does leave one with roughly the same amount of anticipation for the
next part-- just without all the nasty cruelty of a cliffhanger.... ^_^

In other words, I quite enjoyed part 8 specifically, and the series to date
as a whole (and as someone who doesn't read a whole lot of Eva fics, or 
doesn't believe Eva=good is necessarily true, I am coming at it with
perhaps a bit more critical eye than some (although in some aspects I suppose
I would be coming at it with a less critical eye than some as well, but we
won't go into that now, will we? ^_^ ).

At any rate, it's got Matt's Walrus of Approval (it's bigger than a Seal of
Approval, okay?)

Other than that, this is an excelent fic.

Matthew Lewis is:
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	"Khattam-Shud," he said slowly, "is the Arch-Enemy
of all Stories, even of Language itself. He is the Prince of
Silence and the Foe of Speech. And because everything ends,
because dreams end, stories end, life ends, at the finish
of everything we use his name. 'It's finished,' we tell one
another, 'it's over. Khattam-Shud: The End.'"

	-excerpted from Haroun and the Sea of Stories,
		by Salman Rushdie
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