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From: buzzard@world.std.com (Sean T Barrett)
Subject: Re: What makes IF so popular...?
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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 11:46:30 GMT
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Aris Katsaris <katsaris@otenet.gr> wrote:
>Adam Cadre <grignr@cascadia.drizzle.com> wrote in message
>> more meaningfully, "sequential art."
>
>Sequential art?? UGH!!
>
>Music, movies, dancing *and* comic books would have to be placed
>under this label.

The coined term "sequential art" refers to art arranged in
visual (not temporal) sequence. Which just goes right back
to the whole point about terminology like "text adventures";
you can't expect a term to be its own definition. The term
"compact car" does not refer to half-length railway carriages,
mining carts, or vehicles in which international accords
were signed.

SeanB
