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From: djs@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Dilip Sequeira)
Subject: Re: New book: "The Craft of the Adventure"
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Date: Sat, 30 Apr 1994 11:44:17 GMT
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In article <Cp0y4o.CrL@sun2.iusb.indiana.edu>, mkinyon@peabody.iusb.indiana.edu (Michael Kinyon) writes:
> In article <1994Apr29.113817.22394@oxvaxd> nelson@vax.oxford.ac.uk 
>  (Isaac Meldrew) writes:
> 
> I hope all readers of r.a.i-f realize that there is an implicit
> challenge in that statement: find all parts of  _Curses_  wherein
> the Beloved Author violates his own commandments.

Hmm. I suspect Curses falls foul of the "In-Joke" syndrome just once
or twice, although whether the Demon is modelled on a friend or enemy
I cannot say... an amusing illustration of what can go wrong when
exile is chosen as an alternative to death appears in an earlier (now
sadly lost) volume of the Nelson canon.

