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For various reasons I don't want to talk about RL, so have some links snurched from various people.

Cricketing authors - how cool is that? To quote from the linked review:

Peter Pan’s First XI is a study of JM Barrie and the cricket team of dazzling literati (and not quite so dazzling sportsmen) that Barrie ran haphazardly for over 20 years.
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PG Wodehouse was a useful batsman; Jerome K Jerome was rather better at idling; AA Milne liked to watch it even more than to play it; and Arthur Conan Doyle was prodigious: a superb all-rounder who played 10 games at first-class level for the MCC.
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Telfer’s narrative of the team’s travails allows for pleasant asides about [...] the influence of the sport on the literature of its day. Hook, as in Captain, is obviously a cricketing term; Sherlock, as in Holmes, was a conflation of two popular 19th-century county players: Mordecai Sherwin and Frank Shacklock.

Remember my puzzled query about so many Americans knitting dish and wash cloths? Well, Lion Brand's weekly newsletter now features a wash cloth of the week.

Purr Avon, or a cat looking rather like him.

MRIs of fruit - these are gorgeous and intriguing, and well worth waiting for the images to load.

Albanian sworn virgin custom - how a very sexist and traditional society allowed women to live and be accepted as men. Hell, if they had that custom here and now, I'd have gone for it as a kid, though I think the women had to replace a lost male. The article includes interviews with several men born female. Absolutely fascinating stuff.

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:) The crap economy was part of what helped me find my goal. Otherwise, I've tended to take the easiest route through life.

I can see ENFP for Vila. He does see patterns well, that's part of an N type.
I seem to have a weakness for INFPs. My husband and some of my friends are, and it does bring out a protective element in me, and I feel extremely safe. I think I'd feel that way around Vila, too, even if he is a bit of an extrovert.
How much of an extrovert is he, really? He gets very nervous when he's not with at least one person he already knows, and tends to babble because he's nervous. He rarely volunteers to go to planets (only pleasure planets), which suggests he's doing all right with a circle of 5 close friends. I wonder if he seems like an extrovert only by comparison to Avon, who he usually hangs out with. And to the fans, who seem mostly introverts. At any rate, I think he's toward the middle of the I/E spectrum

Interesting! I consider him an extrovert because he panics when left alone and will choose a dangerous situation over that. He would rather go off and rescue the others even though he's afraid then stay safe where he is, and when offered the chance at least twice to stay in Xenon base, he chose to go into danger with the others.

He's nervous around strangers, but that could be due to the hostile environment he's always lived in--never trust anyone you don't know--though he does trust when people act kind, like Zee, Bar, and Pella. I note they're women, and probably women have hurt him less (juvenile detention wards, prison, reprogramming etc).

I don't think the crew ever counted as close friends. Vila likes being around them despite their insults however, but now I think of it, he's the one we know the least about, so he's good at lots of talk and little revealed. I still think his reaction to being alone is telling.

Hmm, true. I get nervous alone in a strange place, but not at home, and their ship is certainly home. OTOH, when I can remember him being scared and alone, it was really creepy circumstances, like possessed-Cally having done something to the others. (My tapes have been in storage so long!) It really hasn't boded well for him when he's been isolated.

And this is going to sound weird, but while I hesitated calling them close friends, I decided to because it's physical proximity that I had in mind-- close contact, being nearly 24/7 with the same group of people. You either bond strongly (and they did, enough to be a potential gestalt)-- or you try to escape the situation, because you need to be around people who aren't them. So they are close in many respects-- just not in the respect of actually liking each other very much.

And Avon chose to go into uncertain death (he'll take a very high risk, just not 100%) on Horizon, rather than race off alone.

But in defense of the extrovert theory, he is NOT one of the ones who the audience sees sulking in their room alone. That distinction goes to Avon and Cally. But I do think Vila falls somewhere midscale, less introverted than Avon, more introverted than Blake or Gan. More consistently written than Dayna. ;)

Yes, we only see Vila alone in his room once, when he's trying to convince himself he's not ill like Jenna and Avon. They are close in an odd way, I suppose because none of them have anyone else. Hmm, I'm starting to be convinced because of how personally reticent he is, though is that an E/I trait? I thought it measured where people get their energy, and Vila does get his from being around others.

I've actually taken tests answering as Vila and he comes out ENFP for me. I'm INTP usually, occasionally INFP on some tests, and the only super-strong attribute I have is N; the others are all around 60-70%.

Greg, I meant to say before, is also INTP. Some people marry their opposite or complements--my ESFP sister married a guy I think is ISTJ--but we married likes, and it's so easy and fun knowing what the other will think about something or be interested in. The hard part is prising Greg out of the house to do things like see films.

Well, Introverts can get stimulated being around others, it just wears them down as well, and they feel that part after the excitement wears off.

Also-- does Vila maybe have health issues? He naps a lot for a healthy young man.
I think I tested 9 Introvert (shocked me because compared to my brother and some friends, I'm not so bad), 9 or 10 iNtuitive, 7 Thinking, 5 J/P

I think the S/N is the biggest "divider" between people, but maybe that's because I'm an extreme on that. But I/E has more to do with how one has fun than how one thinks. And T/F is a sort of value issue; extremes may be hard to deal with, but I think moderate Ts and Fs can connect better than either can with someone at the extreme-- it's frustrating to deal with someone who doesn't ever recognize the merit of an emotional response, and likewise, people who never *think* before reacting are tiring and difficult. J and P, well, those are very complementary sometimes, as planning & adaptability are both useful and should be balanced.

I've guessed at my famil, and I think they probably are: my mom's an INFJ, and my dad's an INTJ. Brother is probably INTP. With Allan an INFP, we cover a quandrant. :)

Yep, if the company and activity's right. :-)

Vila does say he has a weak chest. [hugs him] My fanon is that he sometimes gets nightmares about his past and probably present which is why he naps.

Js and Ps can annoy each other (as I see with my sister and her husband) but yes, S and N are very different.

I think my father was INTx; he was a classics scholarm and aloof and rather Avonic. My mother was ESFP, and so E she'd follow me round the house to talk to me and have the TV on all the time 'for company' which drove me crazy. I went for long walks to be alone. My sister's very like her. I'm not sure about my brother; he's so introvert and closed in, I'm not sure how he thinks.

zomg, we share the same brother. :-)

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