From: Max More (max@maxmore.com)
Date: Fri Jul 12 2002 - 01:07:00 MDT
Thanks for your feedback, Lee.
Curiously, several people who don't know me and a number who do, didn't
seem to have this problem -- or not to the degree you described. However, I
*do* tend to speak too fast when I can't see a large audience -- and here I
was having to look into a blank camera, not able to see *anyone*. (The
larger the audience, the better I do.) I was also very dry-mouthed, not
due to nerves but to cold medication. If you noticed my words becoming more
difficult towards the end of the first segment, that was because I was
having to force them out. I was able to get some water during the break and
that improved things considerably.
Normally, too, I would have relaxed and visualized before such an event.
But I so little warning that I went straight from driving for an hour to a
packed Sunset Blvd. and into the studio.
Perhaps, despite the challenges of my rapid speech tinged with a foreign
accent, my British accent and forthright opposition to Moreno had as much
impact on most of the audience as anything I said... I still don't know
what Moreno looked like, but I hope he was ugly as hell. :-)
Cheers,
Max
At 10:36 PM 7/11/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi Max,
>
>I did see your television appearance, and did *not*
>read the transcript. You spoke way too fast, so
>that even I, enormously sympathetic, and familiar
>with the ideas, couldn't follow you.
>
>I hope that this is old news to you by now, especially
>after having studied your taped performance.
>
>Evidently it's true that slow, logical, idealistic
>statements---which come naturally to us pro-lifers---
>have the greatest positive impact, I would think.
>
>Best regards and good luck,
>
>Lee
>
>P.S. You certainly did *not* lose the "debate", at least.
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