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Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 21:52:49 -0800
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Jim Aikin wrote:

>
> Have I been smoking too much opium, or is this a real possibility? Would
> anybody besides me like to be working in that sort of environment?

It might be to a certain extent, but keep in mind that half of the text we
find so compelling in IF is there to describe things. In a visual (and
aural) environment, such description is redundant and useless. Even in the
area of nonmaterial things, like peoples' thoughts, when the medium is
visual and aural, we'd rather see or hear their thoughts than read them.

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--CardinalT
  Archbishop of Frith and Funeral Barker to the Stars
