For the life of me, I have no idea why this image of Mickey and Minnie was repeated at the start of a whole series of the Epistles of St. Jules to the Forensicians. (Feel free to wave back at them if no one is looking.) No mention is made of it that I have been able to find. Maybe I was just trying to find out how far the Disney folks would go to prevent copyright infringement. I mean, maybe if they were to allow Nostrum to violate their IP rights, the floodgates would inevitably open to the world at large, and the next thing you'd know (if this had happened 15 years later), there would be Mickey ears on your Griffyndor sweatshirt.
Maybe not.
Anyhow, the epistles are now completely edited. They start in the middle of nowhere and end in the middle of nowhere, but it's better than nothing. There are a few choice nuggets that I'll eventually pass along, but the biggest surprise was uncovering Good Guys / Bad Guys. I'm moving on to that next. Meanwhile, of course, if you have 99 cents burning a hole in your e-pocket, you could buy Volume 1, the complete original series, and immerse yourself in a debate world way less turbulent than the real one. It will be way more fun than the upcoming TOC, and you can take that to the bank.
It took forever to edit TOS, but after all, the thing is longer than the Canadian Pacific. I'm predicting that V2 will go much more quickly, unless I keep uncovering more forgotten side tracks like GG/BG. It's taking me as much time to find and format things as it is to edit them. Then again, I'm not attempting to annotate everything. Half the allusions go over my head, and I'm the one who came up with them. Anyone who read McPhee's recent New Yorker article on this subject knows that it's a doomed and rocky road at best. The good news is that, although all of this stuff once filled my head, said head is now almost completely empty of any of it. And a lot of other things, too. But you already knew that, you spalpeen!
And here's the last installment of the listing of that original cast:
Tarleton, Frick and Frank
The Tarleton Twins, Nighten Day LD Novices, often engage in conversations that only they consider any sort of communication.
Torte, Lisa
The not-unattractive, 22-year-old, five-foot tall Ms. Torte begins her Nostrum forensics career as an assistant to Mr. Lo Pat at Manhattan Lodestone. A former LD champ, she is a true believer in postmodernism, whatever that is, and possesses a coffee mug emblazoned with the slogan, "Narrative Isn't."
Toulouse Lautrec High School
A major forensics school with a stuffed monkey as a mascot. They're the closest neighbors to Nighten Day
Coach: Dan Ryan
Debaters:
Policy: Fab Beeter and Kush Behar
LD: Had Fleece
Veil of Ignorance Catholic High School
Policy Rules at this school.
Coach: Seth B. Obomash (original)
Debaters: Tara Petskin & Bill O'Connor
Principal: The Reverend Monsignor Harold Lloyd
The Vitellis
Don Angelo is the father of Don Domenick. Don Proscenio is the son of Angelo and half-brother to Domenick. The newspapers refer to him as Proscenio (the "Whale") Vitelli. The Whale lives a rather piscatory existence, while remaining a mammal, at least in name.
Walsh, Raoul
A dry old man with an eye patch, the principal of Nighten Day.
Warner, Trat
A Nighten Day senior, boyfriend of Ellie DiBella.
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