[fporretto]

If this gentleman had asked to use the last two hundred-plus words of my essay at his site, I would have been pleased to grant him permission...though not pleased that that would become the conclusion of his suicide note. But I would have expected proper attribution.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
Eternity Road

[Sergeant_Ronbo]

I think you people are reading too much into this Ronbo Saga.

My take is that the Ronbo character was simply a literary alter ego like Winston Smith was Orwell’s literary alter ego.

Writers do this all the time.

Clearly the Socrates of Plato is not the real Socates but a literary creation of Plato.

The bigger question was missed by everyone: Perhaps Ronbo’s creator was not Ronald Barbour, but in fact someone else? I mean after all we do have the picture of the dead hiker Ronald Barbour for the Ronbo-Ronald-Barbour. I would think this could indicate that the Ronbo-Ronald-Barbour was dead before the first article was published.