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From: buzzard@TheWorld.com (Sean T Barrett)
Subject: Re: [Comp01] General comments, trams to trolley-buses
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Cedric Knight <cknight@gn.apc.deletethis.org> wrote:
>There has already been some discussion of the overall quality of this
>year\222s competition. I have only sampled from previous years\222 entries and
>so can not really compare, but possibly there are fewer outstanding
>pieces this time around. The majority of entries were competent, and
>worth refining in a second release, but lacked any real element of the
>sublime. I am less and less interested in the \223crossword\224 element of IF
>for its own sake, and more and more interested in the narrative
>qualities.

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SeanB
(this comment written entirely independent of the review contents,
which I will now go and read)
