The other point is that if I were the kind of person who thought in terms of planting myself in interim locations, I might have wandered away from the Mythopoeic Society when I found another Tolkien group, or hooked up with the serious Tolkien scholars (most of whom come to Mythcon only rarely), or when the online forums grew up, or when I resigned from Council in '99. But I don't do things like that, unless I'm driven off. (Even resigning from Council did not come easily: it had as much emotional impact on me as a romantic breakup.)

This is all because I'm a person of emotional commitment. That doesn't mean that people who do do these things are incapable of emotional commitment; I can't speak for them; all I mean is that I act these wasy because that is the kind of person I am.

And the main hope we do have for continuing the Mythopoeic Society, and even the hope we've had for it since the first wave died off in the mid-70s, is that we can get people emotionally committed to it. Otherwise why would they do the work, or regularly come to meetings or Mythcons?