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From: c89ponga@odalix.ida.liu.se (kand. Pontus Gagge)
Subject: Re: Red herrings
Message-ID: <1993May10.184649.9834@ida.liu.se>
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Organization: CIS Dept, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden
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Date: Mon, 10 May 1993 18:46:49 GMT
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Compare IF to writing short fiction. Good style usually means that 
you do not mention a rifle hanging on a wall unless it is used later.
If a character coughs in a the first act of a Russian play, you can
be certain he will die in TBC in the last act...

IF is not for simulating real life (with the infinite number of red
herrings that would imply) - let the VR people corner that market.
IF should be interactive *fiction*: an art form.
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 / kand. Pontus Gagge      | The views expressed herein are compromises \
|  University of Link|ping | between my mental subpersonae, and may be   |
 \ c89ponga@und.ida.liu.se | held by none of them.                      /
