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From: Adrien Beau <adrienbeau@yahoo.guess>
Subject: Re: Atmospheric horror adventure
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Andrew Plotkin wrote:

>>  Adrien Beau wrote:
>> I just finished Anchorhead, a great TADS game (...)
>
> Hey! Inform game. I distinctly remember helping the author
> debug some parse_name code.

Oops, I'm sorry for the confusion. Yes, it is an Inform game,
just like Theatre, by the way. I've been looking too much at
TADS 3 these past few days, it seems.

> (Okay, maybe one other exception: _Anchorhead_ occasionally
> dips a bit into self-aware self-mockery, which I don't think
> Lovecraft did.)

Where do you see self-mockery in Anchorhead? Don't take this
as a question in the offended mode: I'm genuinely interested in
which parts of Anchorhead could be considered as self-mockery.

As for Lovecraft, I don't think he put self-mockery in most of
his famous and major novels, but he has written a few humorous
texts and pastiches, in addition to horror, poetry and tens of
thousands of letters. Have a look at the following:

Ibid
http://www.gizmology.net/lovecraft/works/ibid.htm

Sweet Ermengarde
http://www.gizmology.net/lovecraft/works/ermengarde.htm

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adrienbeau@yahoo.guess
