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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: Random competition thoughts
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Trevor Barrie (tbarrie@cycor.ca) wrote:
> Gareth Rees <gdr11@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> >     >score
> >     Life doesn't work like that.

> I don't know, but I have a very special place in Hell reserved for authours
> who even think of using it as a response for anything (not just score). If
> you want to get across the idea that your IF is a work of fiction and not a
> "game", you have my support... but either way, it ain't life.

What if I argued that what I *meant* was, the work is *about* life?

"Life doesn't work that way, and therefore this piece of fiction doesn't 
either. Figure it out or take a nap, cluebag."

"take diamond"

"(drop dead.)"

--Z

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"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the
borogoves..."
