Date:         Wed, 18 Nov 1998 08:37:00 -0500
From: "the rags of time..." <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Subject:      [WRITERS] INT: the eMJay award interview questions, part tree?

(unlike those missed universes contests, we won't complain if you need to
think a little about your answer to the questions.  When you're ready, send
it in... we will enjoy it!)

Some people warned us not to open a can of worms, but it's obviously way too
late to avoid letting those wigglers loose...

So today's question (are you wobbling on those high heels because you're not
used to four inch -- 10 cm.  -- stilettos or are you just nervous?  :-) is:

[The snare drum rolls, the mirror ball flashes distorted visions across the
audience, the spotlight beams leap and bounce... and the reader curses as
the writer stretches that moment of tension, waiting to find out the
question de jour...]

"If you were a canned food, what would you be?  And why?"


"...I wander'd off by myself
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars."
        Walt Whitman

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