From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Fri Jul 12 2002 - 02:06:26 MDT
Sorry, wrong Lee. I didn't see your appearance.
> (Max More <max@maxmore.com>):
> 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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