i'm sorry to prolong the derrail but...
you'd probably enjoy, if you hadn't already, reading fernando pessoa. i'm guessing you know a bit about him already, but for the rest of the forum here goes a bit of an introduction. he was a portuguese poet and philosopher from the early 20th century, and possibly the first roleplayer. he'd write under pseudonyms and enact many varied personalities, among which were alberto caeiro, ricardo reis and alvaro de campos, the first, he described as the mentor of the other two, was an abnormally literate yet somewhat naive shepperd with a panteistic philosophy, ricardo reis was a monarchist doctor fascinated with classical greece, who ovethought his mentor's philosophy into a melancholic stoic epicurism, the third, alvaro de campos, was an engineer and a poet who eventually became the first portuguese futurist writer, and wrote poetry glorifying machinery itself in a pantheistic way. pessoa himself was an atheist, but he'd also claim to believe each of his characters beliefs in an almost schizophrenic way. it puzzled the critics, and high-school teachers speak of him as somewhat of a derranged genius, but i'm guessing those people don't know much about roleplaying communities
i find his prose very interesting, letters he wrote to friends explaining his heteronymity describe the way in which he managed to believe things he *knew* were fantasy, and how he felt his fantasies and characters were in some ways real. all this described very analytically, written in a very sane and coherent way, as well as in a beautifully written portuguese
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