# Fooey for Fan Fic *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 21 Jun 2001* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Josh Levitan *21 Jun 2001, 17:59* Sorry about the horrid clipping before. E-mail client at work being screwy. > Mantis wrote: > Why do you seem to be arguing with me when I'm using the terms you want me > to use? I didn't write "fans," I wrote "admirers of." > > I should take you to task for saying they are "historians." Good grief! > > =mantis= But there is, at least, a theoretical difference between the two. Horn's sons (and their wives) weren't writing the missing chunks of the TBOTSS because they thought Silk/Horn or Horn/Silk was nifty. Just like the apostles didn't write the Gospels simply because Jesus was a swell guy and they'd like to continue his adventures. And the writers of the Apocrypha aren't fan fic writers either. They were filling in gaps in the "historical" (using the term very loosely) record for reasons of their own -- to relate a message they believed to be within the spirit of Jesus' life and/or teachings, for example. Narwhal ---